The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1862-01-11
Never llcaCd From

Never Ieard From.
There is set on the western side OF our
house door, little used. but which lets
into the wall d picture. ever changing, ever
rich anil rare. Tbs afternoon il was radl'
ant with autumnal glories. and we gazed
I'LL our soul foun! uit-rance in the wish OF
the German poet, "Oh, that some inner.
conservative spirit through my fingers
/, gushed." T"
June and October are the most perfect
} months of the year--In the one, Nature
seems exuberant in ripcness. in the other.
glorious in decay. Oh. thought we, would
that these soft, h4zy days, stepped 10 beauty,
might overlap tie drearinrss Of winter,
and meet the spIingtime! Why must that
Haunting forest. painted so georgeously on
the evergrcens behind, blending softly
wi the mossy wall and upturned mold in
the foreground why must ii So soon fade
into a gray, shade ~le,s horizon?
A robin flew into the tree beneath our
window.
The singing birds will go. too, thought
we, ard the flowers and everything that
brighteIIs and beauties Mature Alas for
dreary winter!
/ Just then the little robin set up a song as
/ bl.hesone and gay if he We're piping
amor the roses oi June.
! What a lesson he Taught US. He seemed
to say. ITO You the leaves are dying. the
flowers are fading, AMI am going. SO it
is: yet in little while se will conn again.
and this landscape, through decay, shall
being the sweet assurance tina. these van
sh ng bra ltes ahoulI live in the memory.
joys forever.
4 Il
by such communions with Nature. s. felt
we we took up, not long ter a catalogue
OF our A Ina Mater, 10 which was appended
a memorandt of such events a. told, in the
lie history thus Tar. OF her children. We
looked ca gerly for the names OF those whom
We loved and cherished.
The first on h. list was Alice A. the
gentle. the good. We woull picture her to
you as twice remember her.
First, As the dutiful daughter, the tender
sister. the patient, truthful scholar, oryetful
of self. and living near TO Goi-tair of fea-
ture. gentle of presence, with soft voice
aud downcast mien--true, womaniy. How
much we admired, how much we respected,
and how much we loved her!
Don't forget me, dear Alice" was the
eager ejaculation OF half a dozen gay girls.
each dressed in white muslin and blue rib
bons--eaoh holding bit of printed parch
ment the reward of well-earned honors.
Never. no never!"--half a dozen grasp
ings of the hand--half dozen gentler
salutations as many times the earnest
"never"-and the gentle Alice lett. never to
go back again; never, no. never.
Next we remember her as joyous bride,
welded to the man Of her choice: the win
some gil grown into the noble woman. be-
jewell-d by many virtues, aud still more
adorned by that rarest Of all genus,
earnest trust in God She had given her.
self TO one who did business upon the great
waters, and it was upon just such day
this that she left her childhood home to
brave the dangers Of the deep.
Such tears iel for her. and such prayers
went up for her. mother alone can give
for "a beloved child. Flowers had bedecked
the bride. and festivities h d gladdenel her
bridal; yet she turned weeping from her
fathers door, and took. with trembling
hands the last token of love-her mothers
Bible
The fair Alice had gone. We. her
quondam schoonate and friend, begged
bud from her bridal wreath, and lett the
mother iondly gathering up scattered re-
membranes.
Several years have passed away since that
scene. Accommodating cares and divergent
paths have hidden from each other since
then more than one band of schoolmaes.
This catalogue memorandum touches
tender chord. One lux is found again.
All. no, not found! "AIicr A ma ried
sailed for the Pacific, and never heard
fIom!'
Here it is again! The vanishing leaves,
the fading flowers. the departing birds. the
fair young girl. and her earnest never
passing say. going. gone yet not lost -
They shall live again. She shall live again.
She lives yet; lives in the school-d'y mem
ory of her piety; lives in the hallow- Il home
influence of her virtues and her fai~h She
is osly hid with Christ in God.-IaaePend
et.