Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1856-04-26
OLD SERIES, VOL Is. NO 81
Summer Friends.

"The friends who in our sunshine live,
When winter comes are flown,
And he who has but tears to give
Must weep those tears alone"
Deserted in his utmost need
BY those his former bounty fed
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not friend TO close his eyes"
as there more ofall my halls Lave hurst,
Page, squire, knight, groom,
No one TO bring
Some blessed water from The srring
To s!ake my dying tbrstI :"
There is sad truth repeated in the above
lines from the poets. The desertion of
friends in adversely is an ugly trait in our
selfish human nature. The world flies from
the unhappy. The Priest and the Leyite
pass as FAR from the sufferer as possible. II
Is only the genuine Christ-man-the good
Samaritan, that ever pauses TO listen to the
sorrows of the wretched. or to pour the
balm of kindness into wounded hearts ana
hopes. Misfortunes are cold'y treated as
crimes aud that, too, when prosperity or
adversely depend upon mere accident. as
uncomfortable as the turning Of card or
the toss-up of copper. Johny Reckless, a
drunken loalrr ia suddenly seized with the
California fever" and rushes on board the
first vessel up for the Golden Lond.-Stum-
bling into gold mine, he returns al the end
OF i've years n millionaire, bespangled with
diamonds and hailed rs "a Jewel of man"
Fllth Avcnue places open their doors TO his
anriterous touch and he who was regarded
as lazy. dirty, vulgar lout but few years
ago, is today courted and codlled as gen
tlAtnrn 1F ,,,rss, OIL
An accident has made him. what nature
never designed him to be-wbat the world
calls a gentleman
Springing from the same sod, VIC may
point to one, the very opposite in organiza-
tlon and character Of the coarse clod wa
have sketchod, who was "bcrn with a gold
spoon IN his mouth :" early accustomed to
the tprde"rSt care and most refined culture
"i oti his faculties who is loved and envied
rom his cradle up: but who, in early man
hood. is suddenly bprrft Of fortune and Of
health; and, by q turn of that tide which
u.'"n 6" 'nySierl0usll : controls "the affairs Of
ren," finds himself stranded aud deserted
upon "ihl, bank and shoai Of time" an ont
cast and a waif. forSakcn and forgotten by
the very friends who swarmed around him in
his golden dawnjng, and gay futiered in the
sunshine of his brighter hours.
These are sad views to take, and to eXhib-
it. OF human character and human practice
but none who has lived obscrvantly can deny
the truth OF the picture; and seldom day
passes that we are not painfully reminded OF
"man'S inhumanity to man." 10y the consider
alton bestowed on the ictictioGs surroundings.
and not On the character Of the individual.
To see Society taking oil its nat ana UoWag
and smiling on some heartess, brainles5
money-bag or some pinchbeck counterfeit Of
humanity. lifted by accident intGa transitory
shoulders against btilWhhAit 'Ao.es its cold
tunes eclipse has cast into shadow, is enough
to make misanthrope Of the kindliest
hearted philosopher did rot the thoughtful
eye look through aud hey"ud the present
pEantasmagoria of unequal conditions, and
see the enigma solved hy the retr!butive aG-
justments Of a Future life