Democrat and sentinel. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1853-1866, 1857-01-07
VOL. 4. NO. IL.
The Lost Lover---A Swedish Tale.
TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN.
In Falun, miqng town in Sweden. hun
dred years and more ago, young miner kiss
ed his fair bride and said to her:
" On st. Lucia's day our love will be bless
ed by the priests hand. Then we shall co
husband and wife, and we will build US a lit
| tie nest O.. our own"
Sc And peace and love shall dwell in it."
said the beautiful bride, with sweet smile.
would choose 10 be in my grave"
But when the priest, in proclaiming their
bans in the church for the second time before
St Lucia's day, pronounced the words, '' If.
now, any one can show reason why these per-
sons should not be united in the bonds of mat
rimony," Death was at 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, and
said. good morning-but never returned to
bid her good evening He never came back
from the mine, and all in vain she embroi-
dered for him that very morning, black era
vat with red border, for the wedding day.
This she laid carefully away, and never ceas-
ed to mourn or weep for him.
Meanwhile, time passed on the Seven
Years war was fought; the partition of Pol
and took place America became free; the
,
Napoleon subdued Prussia, and the English
bombarded Copenhagen. The husbadman
sowed and reaped, the miller ground and the
smith hammered, aad the miners dug after
the veins of metal in their subterranean work
shops. As the miners of Falup, in the year
1909, little before or after st. Johns Day.
were excavating an openin between two shafts,
full two hundred ellis below the ground. they
dug from the rubbish and vItriol water, the
body of young man, entirely saturated with
iron-yitriol, bu: otherwise undecayed and un-
atered-so that one could distinguish his fea-
lures and age as well as if he had died only
an hour before, or had fallen asleep for lit
tie while at his work.
But when they had brought him TO the light
of day. father and mother, friends and ac
quaintances had been long dead I; no one
could identify the sleeping youth. or tell any
thing about his misfortune, till she came, who
was once the betrothed of the riner who had
one day gone to the mine and never returned.
Gray and shriverel, she came to the place
hobbling upon crutch. when more in joyful
ecstacy than pain, she sank down upon the
beloved form. As soon as she had recovered
her exposure she exclaimed, '' 1t is my be-
trothed, whom L have mourned for fifty yenrs.
and whom God now permits me to see once
L -
ding time, he went under the earth and new
er returned" All the bystanders were moved
to tears as they beheld the former bride, a
wasted and feeble old woman, and the BRIDE
groom still in the beauty of youth and how.
after the lapse of fifty years her youthful love
awoke again. But he never opened bis mouth
to smile, nor his eyes to recognize and she,
finally as the only one belonging to him and
having right to him, had him carried to her
own little room, till grave could be prepared
in the church-yard. The next day; when all
was ready, and the miners came to take him
away, she opened a little drawer, and taking
out the black silk cravat, tied it around his
neck, and then accompanied him in her Sun
day garb, as if it were their wedding-2ay and
not the day of his burial. AS they laid him
in grave in the churchyard, she said =
" Sleep well now, for a few days in thy cold
bridal bed and let not the time seem long to
thee [ have now but little more to do, and
will come soon al d then it will be day a
gain As she was going away, she looked
back once more and said. :. What the earth
has once restored, it viii not a second time
Withhold"