Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1857-05-30
A SWEDISH TALE.

In FaluE, q mining town in Sweden, a hundred
years and more ago, Il young miner kissed his fair
bride, and said to her:
"On st. Lucia's day our love will be blessed
with the priests band. Then we shall be husband
and wife, and we will build us q little nest Of our
own"
And peace and love shall dwell in it." said the
beautiful bride, with q sweet smile, " for thou art
my all in all, and without thee | would choose to
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 the reason why these persons should
not be united in the bonds of ~matrlmony," death
was at hand The young man as he passed her
house the next morning in his black mining garb,
already wore his shroud. lie raped upon her
window, and said good mOrning'-but never
returned to bid her good evening. lie never came
back from the mine and all in vain, she embroid-
cred for him ON that very morning Il black cravat
with a red border for the wedding day. This she
laid carefully away and never ceased to mourn or
weep for him,
Meanwhile, time passed on; the evenYears'wa var
was fought, the partition of Poland took place ;
America became free the French revolution and
the long war began Napoleon subdued Prussia,
and the English bombarded Copenhagen. The
husbandmen sowed and reaped. the miller ground,
and smiths hammered, and miners dug alter the
veins of metal in their subterranean workshops.
As the miners of FNluh, in the year 1909, a little
DelOTG VI uller DI. JOOn ) Jay, were eACbVdllnR hu
opening between two shafts, full three hundred ellis
below the ground, they dug from the rubbish ano
vltrlol water, the body OF a young man, entirely
saturated with iron vitriol, but otherwise undecay,
ed and unaltered--so that one could distinguish
his features and age as well as if he had died onl
au hour before, or had fallen asleep tor a little
r while at his work.
But when they had brought him out to the light
of day, father and mother, friends aud aquaintain-
{ cos, had long been dead, and no one could identity
, the sleeping youth, or tell anything of his misfor-
tune, till she came. who was once the betrothed OF
that miner, who had one day gone to the mine and
never returned. Gray and shrlveled, she came tt
the place hobbling upon a crutch, and recognized
her bridegroom, when in more joyful ecstacy thar
pain, she sank down upon the beloved form. A
o soon as she had recovered her composure, she ex
!, claimed: 1T is my betrothed, whom l have
: mourned for these fifty years, and whom God nov
permits me to see once more before | die. A week
before wedding time he went under the grounC
and never returne." All the bystanders were
S moved to tears as they beheld the former bride
wasted and feeble old woman, and the bridegroom
d still in the beauty Of youth and how, after thu
9 lapse OF fifty years, her youthful love awoke again
But he never opened his mouth to smile, nor hi
- eyes TO recognize; and she, finally, as the only on
belonging to him and having a right to him., haC
| him carried to her own little room, till a grav'
could be prepared in the church-yard. The mex
day, when all vas ready and the minister came t
take him away, she opened a little drawer, an
II taking out n black silk cravat tied it around hi
lie neck, and then panied him in her Sunda
l. garb, as it were their wedding-day, and not til
day of his burial. AS they laid him in the gray
in the church-yard, she said 'Sleep well now fo
n, a few days, in the cold bridal bed, and let not tn
10 do, and will come soon, and then it will be dn
;" again" As she was going away, she looked bac
be again. and said "What the earth has once ]
to stored, it will not a second time withhold"