Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-11-16
The Youthful Bride.

Observe that slow and solemn tread
when the youthful bride takes her we'd
ded one by the arm, and with downcast
looks and heavy heart, turns her face
from "sweet home" and all its .associa-
tions, which have for years been growing
and frightening, entwining go closely
around the, purest and tenderest feelings
of the heart. How reluctant that step, as
she moves toward the carriage, how elo-
quent those tears which rush unbidden
from the fountain.
She has just bidden adeu to her home;
she has given the parting hand, the parting
kiss! With deep and struggling emotions
she has pronounced The farewell! and oh,
how fond and yet mournfsl spell that
word breathes, and perhaps it's the last
farewell tothat father, mo ther. brother and
sister. ~ ''
Childhood and youth, tho sweetest NOR
ming Of life. with its charm OF earliest
BIRDS" and earliest associations have now
passed. Now commences new, a mo-
mentuous perit of existence. She reads
IN living characters. uncertainty--where
home was all in all to her. But these ties,
these associations, these enjoYments she
has yielded, one by one, and now she has
broken them all asunder. She has turned
her face from them all, and witness how
she clings 10 the arm of him for whom
all these have been exchanged. laaara
See how she moves on! the world is
before her, and history to, be written
whose pages are to be filed up with life's
loveliest paintings, or perhaps with incl
dents of affecting interest---of startling,
fearful recordi Who can throw aside the
veil even Of "three score years and ten, -
for her and record the happy and sun
bright incidents that shall arise in sue
cession to make joyous and full, the cup
of life-that shall throw around those en-
belishmeuts of the mind and the heart
that which crown the domestic circle with
beauty and loveliness---that which sweet
ems social intercourse. and softens, i'm
proves, and elevates the condition of So
ciety. Or who, with firm and unwavering
hand, can register the hours and days of
affectionate and silent weeping. who can
pen the blighted hopes--the instances Of
row of the confding heart-the deep cor.
roding cares of the mind, when neglected
and forgotten as it twere, by him who was
dearer TO her than life-wheu all around,
was drear and desolate, when the garnered
stores are wastened, and the Pickering blaze
of the earth wanes and goes out, and leaves
her in silence, solitude and tears! But
her love wanes not, slumbers not, dies
not. tH a.s
The brilliant skies may shed down all
their gladdened beauties-nature array
herself in gay flowers, and bright hopes
and friends may greet with laughing coun-
tenances and kind hearts, but it avails
naught. One kind look--one soft and af
fectionate accent; the unequivocal evidence
of remaining love--one smile like thai
which wocd and won her heart, would en-
kindle brighter and deeper emotions at its
fountain, than earth with all its splendor
and gay associations. "t.
Oh, young man, e yer be to thy young
bride what thou scenes now to be; disap
point her not. What has she not giver
up for thee? What sweet ties that bounC
heart to heart, and hand to hand, has sh,
not broken off for thee? Prove thyse)
worthy of all she has sacrificed for thee
Let it ever be her pleasure rs now, to cling
with confding Joy and love to that arm. lie
it be her stay and support, and it shall b
we'll repaid. Hers is an enduring and un
dying love. Prosperity will strengthen
it-adversity will brighten and invigorat'
| it, and give to Traditional luster and love
illness. Should the hand of disease fal
upon thee, then wilt thou behold woman
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spirits wax faint and dropping at the couch
When thine own are fsiling, she will clinl
to thee like a sweet vine, and diause arount
thy pillow those sweet inauerces and at
fractions that shall touch the master spring
and noble passions Of thy nature-ths
shall give new impulse to life Her kin,
: voice will be like music TO thy falling hear
: Like oil to thy wounds. Yea, she wi
raise thee, restore thee, and make the
happy, i(anything less than an getcan do il