Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1857-09-12
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BY B*****.

BY Bs****.
Think you reader that the sea upon
which you have launcbSd your life boat, I
is one continued stream of pleasure If
so far be il from me 10 cast one dark ray
upon the happy thought, 10 lay the with
ering ban Of Discomfort upon your trust
ing hearts,-I such ye are read no farther
but if there is one TO whom life has been
a fleelng illusion vacillating between sun
shine on one side and the storm clouds
lowering Ger the other, then il is for you
TO read this, chapter from the volume
of life, dictated by the heart, and turned
DER by the hand of fate. To such then
would | look for sympathy, for my
"whule heart is faint ard my whole head
is sick' even umo death, as send up the
wailing cry, but my longing wall is utter
ed TO the unheedng wind, no answer
comes, bow obesiance TO a lonely
shrine, ! speak, but hear but the dreary
echo Of my own voice and at last turn
in despair 10 my own heart and commu-
ming with lis thoughts find sympathy
there. Ye traveller on this storm beaten
shore, has it been your destiny 10 look
upon the bright side of fife ! has your
life pictures been lwiled with happy COL
ors Were you as Gar back as You can
remember, child in your hopes and as
piratons as well as in years If so, three
blessed are you, but | never was child,
when the companions Of my age were
basking in the sunshine of childhood's
genial atmosphere, skipping DER the
green sward, tossing the ball, or chasing
The butterfly, in all the simplicity and
guIeIessness Of their young hearts, then
was | diving down into the abstruse tea
chngs Of malured intellect, soaring high
above all into the delightful maZes Of
fancy, around me would throw the man
tie of :eserve and donning the airy wings
of Imagination fly away TO yonder blue
ethereal vault, and oh was so g lad 10
dream away the otherwise long tlresOme
days. Oh then, how lougeu foF'evm-
pathy, to unburden my cares, my many
thoughts. to some loving heart, upon
whose bosom | could lay and feel and
know that each throb beat for me alone,
and finding an echo in the depths of my
own beat there forever. How | wished
for some sage Of old to take the reins OF
my poor wandering spirit and lead II TO
Parnassus famed base, and drink Of Cas-
raIia's crystal (ount, and then ye gods
did | not think 10 touch the vibrating
chords Of my harp, and my song would
be Of - but hush your breathings
heart, my visions of bliss are DER, life is
stern reality, those airy castles have been
blown Ger by the rude blasts Of adversi-
", bnt can not still mount Of iancy's
pinions and bearing away, away, "live
forgetting the world by The world forgot"
Were not my aspirations then too lofty 7!
Did ] not soar above those Of my age, in
having may say an intense love for III,
good, the true, and the beautiful. And as
grew older did not my sighngs TO be
above the mediocrity ''grow with my
growth and strengthen with my strength y
Did | not delesl The common crowd !
Did | not often when tired of the every
day parlanee of my school.mates, fly a.
way 10 some retired nook and sigh that
might be a Sapho both loving and tuning
my harp to love and her fate would that
be mine too, lay bare my heart and read
lis answer there. Melhinks coveted
that. Did not during the long summer
days, as | lay listening TO the rain Paller-
ing on the roof, murmur such thoughts as
these. Will tune my harp TO strains Of
enhancing lay which in after years shall
be read and sighed o'er for tie dream
girls fate Will the gates Of sunset be
opened to NY wandering spirit and once
there shall sing of the beauties Of yOn-
der world or will lis chords be struck in.
to notes more .'earh earthly ?" Will |
sing in praise of beauty's magic powerF'
Will not visit fair Iralia's cline and
meath its deep blue sky, surrounded byl
the fragrance from Ten thousand blossoms
OF the orange and acacia, near by some
sparkling brooSlel whose pesrly waters
are singing in the lovers ears Of the sweet
lille TO come, will ! not say when there
sing Of besuy's magic power, Of the glo-
rious soft velsety eyes OF some dark hair
ed lHebe with rosy lips and queenly
step or Of some yosihfuI aspIrsHt, climb
ing The bill of science, will | tell of his
tolls. his labors, at last his victory or
perchance would awake NY mSse into
praise Of the glores of Nature, OF her star
gemmed ewes, bright landscapes, and glo-
rious sunsets, or hdPly Of some lone
hearts history ] would sing pointing out
the way of Peare TO heT sister spirits in
woe and misery, binding up the scared