Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1856-12-17
A Swedish Tale.
Translated for the Evening Post from I

Evening nj
Hebe
In Falun, mining town in Sweden, hundred
years and more ago. young miner kissed his
fair bride, and said to her:
ION St. Lucla's Day our love win be blessed
with the priests hand Then we shall be hus.
band and wife, and we will build us a little nest
of our own"
"And peace and love shall dwell in it." said
the beautiful bride, with sweet smile, 'for you
are my all in all and without thee / would choose
to be in my grave"
But when the priest, in proclaiming their bans
in the chnrch for the second time, before ST.
Lucias Day pronounced the words, eff, now,
any one can show the reason why these persons
should not be united in the bonds of matrimony,
Death was at hand. The young man, as he pass
ed her house the next morning in his black min
ing garb, already wore his shroud. He raped
upon her window, and said, good morning-but
never returned to bid her good evening. He
never came back from the mine, and all in vain
she embroidered for him on that very morning
black cravat with red border for the wedding
day. This she laid carefully away, and never
ceased to mourn or weep for him. ~
Meanwhile, time passed on; the Seven years
war was fought; the partition of Poland took
place; America became free; the French revolu-
ton and the long war began; Napoleon su bdued
Prussia, and the English bombarded Copenha-
gen. The husbandman sowed and reaped, the
miller ground, and the smith hammered, and mi-
ners dug after the veins of metal in their subter-
ranean workshops. AS the miners OF Falun, in
the year 1909, a little before or after ST. Johns
Day, were excavating an opening between two
shafts, full three hundred ellis below the ground
they dug from the rubbish and vitrol water, the
body of young man, entirely saturated with
iron-vitrol, but otherwise undecayed and unal-
tered-so that one could distinguish his features
and age as we'll as if he had died only an hour
before, or had fallen asleep for little while at
his work.
But when they had brought him out to the
light of day, father and m other, friends and &C
quaintances, had been long dead; and no one
could identify the sleeping youth, or tell any
thing of his misfortune, till she came, who was
once the betrothed of that miner who had one
day gone to the mine and n ever returned. Gray
and shrivelled, she came to, the place hohblng
upon crutch, and recognize ID her bridegroom,
when, more in joyful ecstasy than in pain, she
sank down upon the beloved form. AS soon as
she regained her cOmposure, she exclaimed, SIT
is my betrothed whom i have, mourned for fifty
years, and whom God now permits me to see
once more before die. A week before the
wedding time he went under the earth and new
er returned" All the by ISLANDERS were moved
to tears, as they beheld the former bride, vast
ed and feeble old woman, and the bridegroom
still in the beauty of youth; and how otter the
lapse of fifty years, her youthful love awoke
again. But he never ope ned his mouth to smile,
his eyes to recognize e. and she, finally, as the
only one belonging to b i'm and having a right to
him, had him carried o. her own little room, till
grave could be pre- pared in the churchyard.
The next day, when alll was ready and the min
ers came to take him away, she opened q little
drawer, and taking cut the black silk cravat,
tied it around his neck, and then accompanied
him in her Sunday garb, as lift were their we'd
ding day and not the day of his burial. As they
laid him in the grave in Ii churchyard she said:
-"Sleep we'll now for . fe " days in thy cold bri-
dial bed, and let not the ii me seem long to thee.
Ihave now but little more to do, and will come
soon, and then will be day again. As she was
going away, she looked back once and said,
"What the earth has once restored it will not q
second time withhold"