The Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, Ohio) 1853-1861, 1858-02-25
LIVING GrnNcs.

Says TIcnch 80 Strange as it may seem how
many man has followed himself TO his own
grave! heis no mourncr, (would he were for
thcn there might still b. hope,) but he is an as.
sister at the grave of his own better hupcs and
noiltr desires, of all in which the true lie his
soHl consisted, which is all dead and buried.
thong he, sad survivor orhims.lr still cumbers
the world for awhile"
The earth is great churchyari. fall Of graves
with no head stones aud no oyer-rruwiur etass
Full ot vaults not built in shade OF dim cbspel
or upon green hill side, but borne about in liv.
ing charnei i-houseS--cven in n,atiug hearts
We walk with the dead under our feet, by our
sides, and, suddest OF ail rittin our c1en souls
There ere fewer graves with slored columns
than without Human beings have bright and
dolzcd hope, but they perish and are buried
wlthouteptt phs. They have fond expsc,at tions
which fail in single moment and are ,nourned
iora lie time, yet with on unspokcn lOmsntu-
ton.
There are more ashes in living beings than in
scuptured funeral urus, aud they are pale, cold
0'hcS too, that lie uron the living Goals of life
till the flame is smothercd aud gonr;- cold ashes
that ure swept from the ruins of such pro,tl
high temples as Youth, and Hope, and Young
Love only can build. They ate heaped high over
the dark ruins and whcu single raw of sun
shine falls upon them they Seem to glow, aud
men say of him who bears thrm--"llc smiles
andis happy Oh, how the gay TEMPLES hey.
been wept when they have fallen! How tn,
gorgeous castles have been sorrowcd for when
they have crumhled, aud the briliantly illu.
mined Encies mourned when they faded in dark.
ness
All IN silence have these gravcs been dug
Bitter tears have haliowcd them, when the com.
panlon on the pillow knew not they were she'd
Low means have been given them when the
friend by the sid1 miStOok il for LAUGH. The
soul has prostrsted itself in its sad cemetery
when the world has seen the man or woman stand
proudly erect. II has been said that there arc
sorls which have no summer but il is not So
IL winter covers al, it is because the spriag 1ow-
ers have died and the young hopes persisted aud
been buried in these sad sad scrulcher,. The
burial service has often been said when God was
the only priest, good angels the only pail b,ures,
aud the lone heart thc only mourn +.
brothers have made graves aud sisters not
known IL. Sisters have buried idols aud broth
ess never known they have been worshppcl.-
Husbands have lain away the dead ont of the
sight OF wives; and wives made scpulchcrs whiL1
husbands have never seen. No grass grows on
these gravcs--no birds to cheer them--no now-
ers bloom to h,llow; anil, what is siddor thd
dead lie not quietly within them. That they
are nc; dead but sleeping" might truly be writ,
ten over these tombs, for the pale occupants
glide IN aud ont at all hours OF life and n resur.
rec ion is but thc signal for The n,w burial
So men live, aud smile and count their JOYS,
while they carry their graves il their bcsoms and
have the deal ever for co npanions dead hopes,
dead loves, deal ambitions aud desires The
heart gathers October leaves from It's gardens
and piles them high over its mound Of death. but
the gaIes OF life drift them OF, aud the tombs
stand naked and forlorn. Sometimes we may
read an inscription in the lnmed eye, the sill
,cred hair The strangr lines OF care and the bent
form; but usually each sees but the dead Of
his own heart. When the morning OF the res
direction comes to that phantom throng which
lies buried in human brsoms, iCe shall meet with
in the gates OF the Golden City, and tho vast
multitude may come up purified and made beau.
timl, but no longer mourned- Young Meme
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