The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1857-05-06
MISCELLANEOUS.
a Swedish Tale.
FROM THE GERMAN.

In Faiun. mining town of Sweden, q
hundred years and moro ago, n young
mineo kissed his fair bride, and said to
her:
On St Lncas Day our love will bo
blessed BY the priests hand. Then we
shall build US n little nest of our own.
And peace and love shall dwell in it,
said the beautiful bride, with 4 sweet
smile, for thou art all in all. AID with.
out thee, would choose my grave
But when the priest. in proclaimng
their ban in tho church for tie second
time before St Luca's Day, pronounced
the words, If now any one can show
good reasons why these persons should
not be united u the bonds of matiimony,'
Death was at hand
The young man, as he passed her
honsc next morning 10 his black minin.
garb, already wore his shrOud. lIo rap.
ped upon her window, aud said good
morning - but he never returned to say
good evening lie never came back from
the mine, and all in vain she embroidcr.
ed for him on that very morning back
cravat with red border, for the wedlip
day. This sho laid carefully away ana
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 husbandmen sowed and reaped, the
miller ground and the smith hammered,
and the miners dug after the veins Of
metal in the subterranean workshops.
AS the miners of Falun, in the year
eighteen hundred and nine, little before
or after St. Johns day, were excavating
az opening between two shafts foil three
hundred ellis below the ground, they dug
from the rubbish and vtrol water, the
body Of a young man, entirely saturated
with iron vitrol, but otherwise undecay.
ed and unaltered--so that one could dis
tnguish his features and age as well as
if he had died only an hour before or had
fallen asleep while at his work
But when they had brought him out
to the light of day, father aud mother,
friends and acquaintances had long been
dead no one could identify the sleeping
youth or tell anything of his misfortune,
till she came who was onco the betroth-
ed Of that miner who had one day gone
to the mine and had never returned -
Gray and sbriveled, she came to the
place hobbling upon crutch, and recog-
nized her bridegroom, when, more in joy.
full extacy than pain, she sank down up.
on the below FORM
AS soon as she had recovered her com
posure she exclaimed
1T is my betrothed, whom | have
mourned for fifty years, and now permit
me to see once more before | die A
week before the wedding time, he went
under the earth and never returned
All the bystaDders were moved to
tears, as they beheld the former bride,
wasted and feeble old woman, and the
bridegroom still in the beauty Of youth
and now, after the absence Of fifty years
her youthful lover awoke again. But
he never opened his mouth to smile, nor
his eyes to recognize and she 6ually as
the only one belonging to him, aud hav
ing right to him. had him carried to
her own little room, till grave could bo
prepared in the cburchyard, The next
day, when all was ready aud the miners
came to take him away, she opened lit
tie drawer, and taking out the black silk
cravat, tied it around his neck, and then
accompanied him in her Sunday garb, as
if it were their wedding day. and not the
day Of bic burial.
As they laid him in the grave Of the
churchyard she said
Sleep well ROW, for few days, in thy
cold bridal bed, aud let not the time
seem long to thee. have but little
more to do, and will como soon, aud thon
it will be day again As she was going
away, she looked back once more and
said; What the earth has once restored
it will not second line withhold,