Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-07-03
A SWEDISH TALE.

A SWEDISH TALE.
In Falun, a mining town in Sweden,
a hundred years or more ago, young |
miner kissed his fair bride and said to
her:
"On St. Lucia's Day our love will be
blessed by the priests hand. Then we
shall be husband and wife, and we will
build US little nest of our own"
"And peace and love shall dwell in
it" said the beautiful bride, with sweet
smile, " for thou art my all in all, without
thee | would choose to be in my grave"
But when the priest, in proclaiming
their banns in the church for the second
time before St. Lucian's day, pronounced
the words, off now, any one can show
reason why these persons should not be
united in the bonds of matrimony," 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 he never return
ed to bid her good-evening. He never
came back from the mine, and all in vain
she embroidered for him on that very
morning a blacl, cravat with red bor-
der, for the wedding day. This she laid
carefully away, and never ceased to
mourn or weep for him.
Meanwhile time passed on; the seven
years war 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 husbandman sowed and reaped, the
miller ground, the smith hammered, ant
the miners dug after their veins of meta
: in their subterranean workshops. A
the miners of Falun, in the year 1909, ;
little before or after St. Johns Day, wer
excavating an opening between the shaft
full three hundred ellis below the ground
they dug from the rubbish and vitro
water the body of young man, entirel
saturated with iron vitrol, but otherwis
undecayed and unalteredNso that on
could distinguish his features and age q
well as if he had died only an hour b.
. fore, or had fallen asleep for little Will
= at his work.
But when they had brought him Oh
= to the light of day, father and mothe
friends and acquaintance, had been lOr
= dead no one could indemnity the slee
:, ing youth, or tell anything of his misfo
tune, till she came, who was once Il
=. betrothed Of that miner who had o.
90 day gone to the mine and never retur
g ed. Gray and shirvelled, she came
the place hobbling upon a crutch, a
80 recognized her bridegroom, when, INC
~ in joyful extacy than pain, she sank do
:. upon the beloved form. As soon as S
-. had recovered her composure, she {
!. claimed, at is my betrothed for whom
.. have mOurned for fifty years, and VIII,
nd God now permits me to sec once m,
,od before l die. A week before the w
ding time he went under the earth, 6
never returned"
- All the by-standers were moved
49, tears, as they beheld the former bride
= wasted and feeble old woman, and
- bridegI DOM still in the beauty of you
and how after the lapse offifty years,
youthful love awoke again. But he ne
'' opened his mouth to smile, nor his e
-. to recognize; and she, finally, as
only one belonging to him, and havin
w right to him, had him carried 10 her {
,. little room, till grave could be PREF
.; ed in the churchyard. The next {
-. when all was ready, and the miners CO
o e to take him away, she opened a Ii
drawer, and taking out the black
cravat, tied it around his neck, and t
accompanied him in her Sunday gart
:, if it were their wedding day, and not
- day Of his burial. AS they laid hin
the grave in the churchyard, she {
,ho "Sleep well now, for a few days, in
cold bridal bed, and letnot the time S
49, long TO thee. have now but little 4
,rl TO do and viii come soon, and then it
49,: be day again." As she was going a.
;or : she looked back once more and
-r,; "Wbat the earth has once restored, it
m; not a second time Withhold"
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