The American. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1857, 1857-12-19

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loves his mother s,d lae Nau..
lone day it happened that | received
letter, informing me that my mother was sick
The poor dear womanl Idesired to go ant
see her; l asked leave of absence--it was no
granted. recalled her last words. " yol
lope me, do your duty,' and was resigned
Soon after heard that She my mother, was
dead. Then my brain turned. AT any price
ut all hazards, determined to return to tht
country. Whence sprang this ardent, this
impetuous longing, to visit the place where
my mother had Just died? will confess to
you the cause. Since you have O mother
since you love her; since she loves you, you
can comprehend me- We peasants Of the
Morvan are simple and creduious men. we
have neither the instruction nor the science
that is found in cities, bat we have our betaefs
which you of the city call superstitions. Ol
what consequence is it whether they be called
one or the otherS We have them, and skill
full, indeed, must he be who can tear them from
our soul Now one Of the beliefs which we
most firmly hold, is that which attributes to
the first flower that blows upon newly sodded
grave, SO great virtue, that he who gathers
that flower can never forget the dead, or be
forgotten Of them. Dear and charming belief!
With that thought, death has nothing to excite
fear; for death, without forgetfnlness, is
nothing more than mild sleep 1t is only a
repose after long fatigues
"And that flower! I desired earnestly to
see 1t spring up, wished to gather it, and SO
left the camp. After ten days steady, pain
full walking, reached my mothers grave.
The earth seemed to be freshly heaped up.
No flower had appeared WAITED six weeks
rolled away; then, In the first dawn Of q beau
tiful day, / saw expanding o little flower Of
azure blue. II was one Of those flowers which
the people Of the city call Myosotes, but which
we country folks call Forget me-not'
In gathering it shed tears Of delight, for
it seemed to me as If this little flower was the
soul Of my mother; that she had felt my pres
ence, and under the form of this flower, she
had returned to offer herself to me. Nothing
retained me in the country, for my father soon
followed my mother to the grave, and / had
gathered my precious flower, and what more
did need? sA9.5 ,n l'tIi's 7#F' KAN. /,
II remembered my mothers counsels, do
yoslx daty - 30 i inquired for the gend'armes,
and said to them, am deserter arrest
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a.aNaWs 4 An1 going to die, and il, as you have
asssGfedf -kavv ,ffleAa in lpu, i shall die
without q. reSTet, ypu VIII 'perf foE me
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and just as an officer had read this htal Sen.
.tsncG there &as heard a. iojse at adtsahhce aud
then loud cries ran along of fhe army.
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to me, but to France. She is FOOD, ,nfpbl,
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