Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1857-05-08

Then shook the warriors of tho shade,
Like leaves on aspen limb
subdued by that heroic maid
Who breathed prayer for him.
" Unbind him !' gaspcd the chief
Obey your kings decreeAoH
Hc kissed away her tesrs of grief,
And set the captive free.
'Tis ever thus, when in 1ife's storm,
Hopes star to nah grows dim,
AN angel kncols in womans form,
And breathes prayer for him.
GEORGE r, MoFn's'
How could that stern old king deny
The angel p!cadng in her cyc3
How mock the sweet, imploring grace
That brcathed in beauty from her face,
And to her knceling action gave
A power to soothe and still subdue,
Until, though humble slaves,
70 moro than queenly sway she grow.
WILLIAM &. S1xxs.
The Emperor yielded to the maid, and
the captive was set free.
Two years after that event, Pocahontas
again became an angel of deliverance.
She fastened to jamestown during dark
and stormy night. informed the English
of conspiracy to exterminate them, and
was back to her couch before dawn
Smith was grateful. and the whole Eng
lish colony regarded her as the deliverer.
But gratitude is often plant of feeble
root, and the canker of sel6shness will
destroy it altogether. Smith went to
England /; the morals of the colonists be-
came depraved and Argall, rough,
ha!fpiratical navigator, unmindful OF her
character, bribed savage, by the pro-
mise of copper kettle, to betray Poca-
hontas into his hands, to be kept as a
hostage while compelling Powhatan to
make restitution for injuries inflicted
The Emperor loved his daughter ten
derly, agreed to the terms Of ransom
gladly, and promised unbroken friendship
Tor the English.
Pocahontas was now free to return to
her forest home. But other bonds, more
holy than those Of Argall, detained her.
While in the custody of the rude bucca.
neer, mutual attachment had budded
and blossomed between her and John
Rolfe, and the fruit was happy marri-
age" another knot to bind The peace"
with Powhatan much stronger.
April, in the Virginia peninsula, where
the English settlers first built city, is
one of the loveliest months in the year.
Then winter has bid final adieu to the
middle regions of America the trees are
robed in gay and fragrant blossoms the
robin, the blue bird, and the oriole, are
just giving the first opening preludes to
the summer concerts in the woods, and
wild flowers are laughing merrily in eve
ry hedge. and upon the green banks of
every stream.
1t was charming day in April. in
1918, when Rolfe, and Pocahontas stood
at the marriage altar in the new and pret
ty chapel at jamestown, where not long
before, the bride had received Christian
baptism. and was named the Lady Re-
becca. The sun had marched hallway
up toward the meridian. when a goodly
company had assembled beneath the
temple roof. The pleasant odor of the
"pews OF cedar" commingled with the
fragrance of wild flowers which decked
the festoons Of evergreens and sprays that
hung over the fair. broad windows"
and the commandment tablets above the
chancel. Over the pulpit of blackwell
nut hung garlands Of white flowers. with
the waxen leaves and the scarlet berries
Of the holly. The communion>table was
covered with fair white linen. and bore
bread from the wheat fields Of jamestown.
and wine from its luscious grapes. The
font. " hewn hollow between, like a ca
noe.'" sparkled with water, as on the
morning when the gentle princess uttered
her baplismal vows.
OF ell that company assembled in the
broad space between the chancel and the
pews, the bride and groom were the cen
trail figures in fact and significance. Po-
cahontas was dressed in simple tuuic OF
white muslin. from the looms Of Dacca.
Her arms were bare even to the should
ers; and. hanging loosely towards her
feet, was robe Of rich stuff. presented by
Sir Thomas Dale. and fancifully embroi-
dered by herself and her maidens. A
gaudy fllet encircled her head, and held
the plumage Of irds5and veil of gauze.
while her limbs were adorned with the
simple jewelry Of the native workshops.
Rolfe was attired in the gay clothing oil
an English cavalier Of that period, and
upon his thigh he wore the short sword
of distinction in society. He was the
personifcation of manly beauty in form
and carriage she was of womanly mo.
desty and lovely simplicity and as they
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