The Yazoo Democrat. [volume] (Yazoo City, Miss.) 1858-18??, 1858-11-20
YAZOO CIY MISSISSIPPI SATURDAY. ORNING NOVEMBER 2 SS
THERE'S A SIGH IN TIE HEART.

There's many sigh in the heart The
lips may discourse tile language Of gaiety,
the fair brow teen with pleasure and mirth,
yet there may be sigh in the heart. Be-
meath the attire of fashionable life may
these words be applied. Beneath the ves-
ture of every garment there sometimes
swells sigh from the heart. Reader, dol
you see that man with all his fine cqti !,
age, as he goes bowing along to one, and
wishing good cheer to another? You would
not suppose that he was unhappy; why need
dark clouds arise to darkeu his horizon? HeI
has every thing that heat can wish in the
way of money, but ah dear reader, that
princely mansion he calls his home is no
home for him. No gentle wife stands wait
ing to welcome him to his home; no glad
smiles, no romping, joyous children climb
upon his knee, and bid him welcome home
again. No instead of gentle wife greet
lug him at the door, be enters the .parlor,
and lady coldly nd formally agreets him
A lady of fashion. She sits reading the
last new novel, and but glauces at him as
he takes his accustomed seat at the freside
He is weary with the cares of the world !;
is weary with the colduess and pretende +
friendship Of earth's fair children; he sees
plainly that " all is not gold that glitters"
And while sitting there he wandered back
through the dim vista Of years to the home
of his childhood he sees again the crack
ling fire as it rolls up the wide mouthed
chimney; he knows that loving hearts were
twined around his, and he hears again theil
kind words as they fall soothugly on his
ear. But, as he contemplates that he has
risen from a poor farmers boy, and sees the
!, cold heartIings of fashionable life, ne sjghs
\ deeply, thrilling y, and almost unconsciou,ly
He goes to his daily Office aud meets hi;
fashionable friends he wears smile on his
brow; there is JOY beaming from his spark
ling eye, but down deep in his heart he GOV
; ers his sorrows, so that none shall see hin
only as the rich merchant Of - street
: the leader of fashion, and the gay and wit
companion. But there's many sigh escape
! from his heart thong the frieuds know i
} not.
Reader, do you see that prima donna, il
: all her beauty, as she gathers the rich boquet
, that have fallen at her feet ? Do you bea
. her charming voice as she finishes the las
/, Gtanza, and receives the cheers of an assem-
: bled multitude; who would imagine ther
was sorrow there? Who would imagine, t.
D look on her lowell face and beauteous form
there was a sigh in her hearty Yet til
cnr.ain is hardly closed after her retreatn
n figure, ere sigh, which seems to rcnd til
+ qery fountain of life, escapes in an uncon
: Scious grnan, and she excams vanity
' vanity! Many persons would give thousand
r aud thousands to be- cbeered by Il multtud
as she has been, but, ah they little know
that beneath all this glitteriug parapherna
lia beats sorrowing heart with many
sigh.
Look at that drunkard, as he reels alon
{ the homeward path, and see the author e
/, many sighs; fond, gentle wife stand
waiting the return of him who vowed t
love aud cherish her urtil death, the fna
eonqueror had parted them. Once she wa
hgppy in that love, but now it is turned t
sorrow. Once she stood waiting to hear hi
gentle footsteps aud kind voice, but nov
how changed Instead of kind words an
loving smiles his smile is demons smile
and his kind words are turned to bitter cur
D ses and the heart that once YVES happ
E knows no more happiness; the heart tina
r once was full of joy now is full of sighs
a The world is full of them; they may b
5 heard coming across the lowly wave in
dismal dirge.
d "Theyre echoed on the evening breeze
! They're heard on desert plains;
In monrnful voices through the trees
:, We hear them come again."