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

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN OF HEBEI.
-r-.a. 81
In Fsluu, mining town in Sweden, hun
dfed years or more ago, young miner kiss
ed his fair bride and said to her:
"On 81. 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 10 IT,"
said the beautiful bride, with sweet smile,
f.lor thou az: my oil in'ail, and without thee !
would choose 10 be in my grave"
But when the priest, in procaiming their
bans in the church for the second lime before
st. Lucia's day, pronounced the words, "If,
now, any enc can show reason why these
persons should no, be unIled il the bonds Of
ma,rimoay," Death was al -. a5e yonas
man, as he passed her house next morning
in his black mining garb, already wore bis
sbroud. He raped upon her window and
said good morning. he never returned
10 bid her good evening. He never came
back from the mine, and oil 10 vain she EN-.
broidered for him a black cravat 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 subdoed Prussia, and the English
bombsrded Copenhagen. The husbandman
sowed and rea2ed, the miller ground and The
smith hammered, and the miners dug after
the veins of metal in their subienanean work
shops. As the miners Ct FaIuD, in the year
eighteen hundred and nine, lfttle before or
after St. Johns day, were excavating 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 young
man, entirely saturated with iron viriol, but
Otherwise undecayed and unallered-so thai
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 tley had brought him oui 10 the
light of day, father and mother, friends and
acquain,ances, 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 belrothed Of that miner who
had one day gone 10 the mine and never re-
turned. GRAY and shnveled, she came 10 the
place hobbling upon cruich, aud recognized
her bridegroom, when more in joyful ecstacy
than pain, she sank down upon the beloved
form. AS soon as she had recovered her
composure, she exclaimed, 1T IS my betrolh-
ed, whom l 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
Tetumed." .,-t-
All The bysiandsrs were moved to tears, as
they beheld The former bride, wasted and
feeble old woman, and the bridegroom s,ili
in the beauty Of yonlh and how, after the
lapse of fifty years, her youthful love awoke
again. But he never opened his mouth to
smile, nor bis eyes 10 recognize and she,
finally, as the only one belonging to him, and
having right 10 him, lad him carried 10 her
own little room, till grave could be prepared
in the church yard. The next day, when oil
was ready, and the miners came TO take him
away, she opened little drawer, and taking
out the black silk cravaf, tied il around his
neck, aud then accompanied him in her SON.
lay earb, as if i, were their wedding day and
not the day of his burial. As they laid him
in the grave in the cburchyard, she said
asleep well now, for few days, in thy cold
bridal bed, and let no. the time seem long to
thee. have now but little more to do, aud
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, ii will not second time with.
hold"
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