The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1860-05-16
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The wife.
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had fiiresids an my own--nine to
be sat by with second self, dearer,
if possible, than the freside-even I,
lingering over that phase, can scarcely
reconcile myself to the fact that | am
not to some fond and faithful heart
that being to go home to-" Even I
can shut my eyes and dream dream
of which that would be a blessed reali-
| ty.
/ can see cottage which love has
made holy, nesting away in the sunny
summer leaves where the golden glory
of sunset longest fingers, and the shad-
ows latest reach. I can see the gentle
wife, with her soft, sweet face gazing
out through the open door, and down
the lane to the turnpike where he is
momentarily expected to appear.
can hear the hum of children's voices,
and feel the pressure of cool fresh kiss
es, which come only from childhood's
lips. / can read in the sudden fash
ing of her eye that there is a step not
too far distant for her impatient ear to
distinguish and now I can see ham,
that impetuous, worldly man, leaving
the world and its cares behind him to
meet the being he has leone homo
to-" There is loving wife in his
arms there are children clambering
his knees; for kisses there is peace,
quietude, home, all around him, and
the worldly man, with the dust OF city
life on his spirit, withAthe knowledge
of city cares and city specnlations
teeming in his brain, turns from them
all to find rest and repose ip the little
nook he has set apart for love! God
bless him, and God bless her-imagi.
nary though they are; for while | wit
ness their perfect love and content, |
am remembering that am still wan
derer. A wanderer with the knowl-
edge that, bad fate been more prOpiti-
GUS, /, too, might have had my low
ing heart, my sunny home, and my
loving children. But fate was inexor-
able, and where all this happiness
might have been, lies stark and bare
befoae me the panorama of two vast
ed lives. God help US all: we are not
the architects of our own destiny, let
moralists say what they will
| know that the world is full of
homes that are no homes, of wives
upon whose artificial hearts no true
husband could call for sympathy, or
mothers upon whose bare jeweled necks
there is no room for ehildhood'S fond
arms. | know all this, yet | cannot
realize that it is so! Love seems to
me so sacred, marriage so holy tie.
that man or woman's life should not
be complete without it, Not the wild,
fierce, persistent love which burns it.
self out in its own tire-nor the mar
riage of circumstance or eonVeience to
which SO many lives are devoted but
the pure, true, lasting love-the we'd
ding of souls that have grown indisso-
lubly to each other-the uniting OF
hearts that neither time, nor distance,
nor misfortune can effect-a union Of
SOUL sense, and spirit, sure as death,
and lasting as eternity. Pitiful oh,
most pitiful, that there are no more
such unions
"a being to go home OF" Only
the heart of man can tell how truly,
in every life, such being is needed
No matter how Self.centered, or pre-
occupied-no matter how burdened
down with the cares and. perplexities
of life, there come yearnings for that
rapturouS, human love, dreamings of
fond lips and warm, loving arms, ant
anticipationS of time TO come when
one heart, out of the great wilderness
of hearts, shall beat for him, and him
alone.
Lucky for him who, amidst the I'M
real and artificial glare of life, gathers
to his bosom this pearl of greatest
price. Lucky for him who, when the
tempest of care and worldly RESPONSE
bility rage most ferccly, can feel wher.
the tiresome toll is over, and the day
is done, he has a being to go homo
to-" who can minister to his comfort
and sympathize with his cares. The
man who has wife that be truly loves.
and a wife who truly loves him. can
make up his mind that he has antiti-
pated the millennium, and commenced
his paradise on earth.
The highest aud most characteris-
tic glory of all earthly beauty is TO
make us aspire to heavenly one and
q woman is great in proportion to the
ideal she suggests
The most influential man, in free
country at least, is the man who haa
the ability, as well as the courage. to