The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-09-18
The Diving Wife to her Husband.

The following most touching fragment
of q Letter from Dying Wife to her
Husband" was found by him, some
months after her death. between the
leaves Of religious volume which she
was very fnd ci pernsins- The letter,
which was literally dim with tear marks,
was written long before the husband was
aware jhat the grasp OF 4 fatal disease
had fastened upon the lovely form of his
wife, who died at the carly age of nine
teen:
"when this shall reach your eye, dear
c., some day when you are turning
over tie relics of the past. shall have
passed away forever, and the old white
stone will be keeping its lonely watch
over the lips yon have SO often pressed,
and the sod will be growing green that
siiall hide forever from your sight the
dust OF one who has so often nestled close
to vour warm heart For many long and
slecpless nights. when all my thoughts
were at rest. I have wrcstlcd with the
consciousness OF approaching death, and
at last it has forced itself upon my mind /;
and although to You and to others it
might now seem but the nervous imag-
nations of a girl, yet, dear C., it is so
Many weary hours have Ipassed in the
cndeavor to reconcile myself to leaving
you, whom I love so well, and this bright
world of sunshine and beauty; and hard
indeed it is to struggle on silently and
alone, with the sure conviction that am
about to leave all forever and 60 down
alone into the dark Valley "But I
know in whom I have trusted, and lean
ing upon His arm, I fear no evil" Don't
blame me for keeping even all this from
you. How could L subject you, of all 9th
ers, to such sorrow as I feel at parting
when time will so soon make it apparent
to you? l could have wished to live, if
only to be at your side when your time
shall come, and pllowing your head upon
my breast, wipe the death damps from
your brow, and usher your departing spir-
it into its Makers presence, embalmed in
woman's holiest prayer. But it is not to
be so-and l submit Yours is the privi-
lcge of watching, through long and drea-
ry nights. for the snirit's final fiaht and
of transferring my sinking head from
your breast to my Saviour's bosom. And
you shall share my last thought; the last
faint pressure of the hand, and the last
feeble kiss shall be yours, and even when
flesh and heart shall have failed me, my
eye shall rest on yours until glazed by
death; and our spirits shall hold one last
fond communion, until gently fading from
my vicw-thc last on earth-you shall
minge with the first bright glimpse OF
the uniading glorics of that better world.
where parting is unknown. We'll do
know the spot dear d. where yoa
will leave lir: vli>'i nave W. oioo0 hl tne
place. aai. rs Ne WATCHED Inc mellow
sunset as ii glanced in quvering flashes
through tie leaves and diminished the
grassy mounds around Us wiih Striqes OF
FURNISHED gold, cerf perhaps has thought
that one Of Us would coac atone; an'!
whichever it might be, yoNr name would
be OF the stone. Eat wc loved the spot ;
and know you'll love it none the less
when YOU see tho same quiet sun-llSgn1
linger and play among the Grass that
grows over yoar liaays grave. L know
you'll 90 Often alone there, when | am
laid there, and my spirit will he with You
then, and whisper among the waving
branches. Tar, mi iosi Jat goac 6efofe. .
-hnicfer5octcr.
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Tgo1-,;nrs AND DERDS.--!t is muc