The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1857-04-29
A SWEDISH TALE.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF HEBEL.


In Fsluu, mining town in Sweden, hun
drsd years or more ago, young miner kiss
ed his fair bride aud said TO her:
Goa ST. Lucia's day our love will be blessed
by the priests hand. Then we shall be hus.
band and vile, and we will build US neat
little nest of our own"
"And peace and love shall dwell in it,"
said the beautiful bride, with sweet smile,
''lor thou ar. my all In all, and without thee
would ohooss 10 be in my grave"
Blu, when the priest, in proclaiming their
bans in The church for the second time before
St. Lucia's day, pronounced the words, "li,
now, any enc can show reason why these
persons should not be united in the bonds Of
matrimouy," Death was al hand. The young
man, as he passed her house next morning
in his black mining garb, already wore his
shroud, He raped upon her window end
said good morning he never returned
10 bid her good evening. He never came
back from the mine, and oil in vain she en-.
brodsred for him black oravat with red
border, for the wedding day. This she laid
carefully away, and never ceased 10 mourn
or weep for him.
Meanwhile, time passed on; the Seven
Years War was fought; the partition of Po-
land took place America became free the
French revolution and the long war began ;
Napoleon sub6ued Prussia, and the English
bombarded Copenhagen. The husbandman
sowed and rea2ed, the miller grouud aud the
smith hammered, and the miners dug after
the veins OF metal in their sublenanean work
shops. AS the miners CT Falun, in the year
eighteen hundred aud nine, lirle before OF
after ST. John's day, were excavaing an OPEN
ing between two shafts, full three hundred
ellis below the ground, they dug from the rub
bish and vilrol water, the body Of a young
man, entirely saturated with iron vilriol, but
otherwise undecayed and unallered-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 al his
work.
But when they had brought him oui 10 the
light of day, iuher and mother, friends and
acquainlances, had long been dead no one
could identity the sleeping YOUTH or tell any
thing of his misfortune, till she came who
was once The belrolhed Of that miner who
had one day gone 10 The mine and never re-
turned. Gray and shnveled, she came 10 The
placa hohhiino upon a cIn,ch, and recoonivaa
her bridegroom, when more ia joyful ecslacy
than pam, she sank down upon the beloved
form. As soon as she had recovered her
composure, she exclaimed, at is my betroth-
ed whom | have mourned for fifty years,
and whom God now permits me 10 see once
more before die. A week before The we'd
ding time he went under The earth and never
returned"
All the byslanders were moved TO tears, as
they behed The former bride, wasted and
feeble old woman, and the bridegroom slil
in the beauty Of youth; and how, ailer the
lapse Of fifty years, her youthful love awoke
again. But he never opened his mouth TO
smile, nor his eyes TO recognize and she,
finally, as the only one belonging 10 him, and
having right 10 him, tad him carried TO he:
own little room, till grave could be prepared
in the church yard. The next day, when all
was ready, and the miners came 10 take him
away, she opened little drawer, and taking
out The black elk cravat; lied ii around his
neck, aud then accompanied him in her SON.
lay garb, as if j, were their wedding day and
not the day of his burial. As they laid him
in The grave in the churchyard, she said
Sleep well now, for few days, in thy cold
bridal bed, and lei no! the time seem long 10
thee. have now but little more TO DO, and
will come soon, and then it will be day again"
AS she was going away, she looked back
once more aud said, "What the earth has
once restored, il will not second time with.
hold"