The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1861-11-23

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And Emeiine never regretted her choice;
| her husband is one Of the gifted Of the
land. ard poets havcnlng his praises. Has
she rot reason to bliss the day that she
gave one losf ssalsaeh An impetus by a
word of kindness, tha, he rose from real
degradation 10 immortal honor?
| sswGriiour EsCUMBRANcE."
~RoaRD wAsNrGn--A gentleman ana lsily With
cat eae gun5Gaaee, Gessges ets.H .s Is
One sees queer thinss in Gtlle type in the
newspapers, sometimes conveying, By impli-
cation. n9l sorts Of doctrines, disclosing pce.
pies ideas of happiness when they least
suspect 1t, and aguriing a clue to the faith
| in mauy heart that is sealed bpaa To those
| that know il best, and yet all set forth so
many times daisy 10 fun advertisement.
Sometimes. us in this nonpareiE ex preston
of ga WANT we have peoples definition OF
things which set Webster and Jehnson at
/ defiance.
"Withous cncumbrance - What young
mother, when she feels forthe first time her
! tirst-born's breath, would ever imagine, in
! the new blossoming Of her new love, there
1 should exist lexicon. wherein, nnder the
| E's. il shoa!d read thus: .Ed, Eg, III Fl,
/ En-" .@' &" y '*'+'
"EScrnBR.SeE, IA Young human be-
/ ing--a child # H fgsr
| There! what do you think Of that, We
old-fasbioued grandmo,hers, whose love j.
visited upon the children. even to the third
and fourth generation "Rachel weeping
/ for her eaeHn,brGnses ~ siiere am and
| the eRcUHdfGaees thou hast given me -
"And the lion shall lie down with the lamb,
and a little enctnt5rGRce shall lead them p
These little motives, IN PINK and fair
dimity, that stir up the pulses like II clarion,
1 that nerve up the weary, and light up the
hope. and lill up the sighing with song, are
encumbrances SO then the sweet little
candidates for heavens kingdom, that
dance around tho threshold of the open
i heart, and enter untorbidden that keep
the world from growing old in sorrow and
in sin, are eacambfdnces all! And when
they arc elected, for SO, alas they some.
times are, as the greenswards broken into
H;tle biilows everywhere, and the Raehels
that will not be comforted, SO sadly attest
think you, when the mother rocks the emp,,
cradle. and looks upon the impressed pillow.
and finds in the "tili' a siiken tress and a
pair Of little shoes, that were laid aside for
/ sandals Of light, that she finds the name Of
the wearer uuder the Ems that when the
poet signcu, -'1
"Therc IS aocl however watched and tended
But one dead Lamb Is there - ...
There Is u5 fTe,tle tswso IL defended 's 81
BU. has gae vacant elair.'i- E.. .... ...9-.
| or when he who suDs the "Aigs Of Palestine, -
! declared. @@
4. u cannot make him deadi #falr-.
His fair snnShiay head ........ g. a.s... --.s
! Is ever bounding round my study chair, -
] that either of them dreamed the burden Of
/ the'sopg was mortgage ? and not rather
/ one star lost out of visible heavens that
/ set ......--.s ...-......... -. .......
/ "As scts The morning star, that goes nat down
Behind the daI kened west, nor biies ohGsggcd
Amid The iemRests Of the sky, but nelts -,
Away into the light OF heaven" a
May the hearths, the thresholds. and the
hearts of the world never be without sen.
cumbranccs, let them all be mortgaged 10
them, who, s'like the planets, are nearest
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