Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1862-08-15

of mournfulness and pathos that we free
quently cannot fail to notice in the out
cast voices that assail our hearing with
such coarse and vulgar associations; a
something of crushing want mingled with
appeal an indefnable melancholy Of ex-
preston, as if the hidden soul was strug-
Cling to send up through hunger, crime
and degradation, yelled petition for
brotherhood with the higher race, that
also suffer and starvc in their hearts, un-
consciously echoing again to the Highest
of All, the prayer for help, for where
withal to sustain life spiritual and phys.
ical--the great, the universal, "Cry Of
the Human" .ll.H ~ -''', 4
The child listened: slowly there pene-
trated through the throbbings of her
weary brain the dim perception of mean
ing in those fragmentary tones-a mean
ing that her analytical powers were too
faint to define, but which, nevertheless,
stirred an answering sentiment in the ten
der, untarnished, and unworldly heart.
There was some one more wretched
than herself gropiug through the by-ways
of life. acquainted with the gaunt shape
of poverty; wrestling. day by day, amid
sinks of perdition, for the mere food to
maintain an existence that scarcely seem
ed worth having; and lying down, night
after night kennellcd, perhaps, with worse
than dogs. She knew something about it
this observing, loving, little child ;
good people had read tracts in her pres
ence, descriptive of the state of the poor !;
she had more than once accompanied those
who had her in charge to the meetings, of
a moral society, where every fostering
sore of humanity was laid bare, and the
great salve of money was industriously
pleaded for; and reports were recorded of
how the daintily gloved hands had ad-
ministered the plaster, even though curses
had followed the bcstowal of their mercy
aud hate, the characteristic of the caste,
had blasphemed their noblest philanthro-
py. But this young girl, with all the first
freshness of feeling still pure and strong,
put aside her own annoyance to think out
the thoughts that rose unbidden. awaken
ed by an unknown voice uttering words
neither refined nor poetical. The divine
fount of pity was stirred, and the waters
: of love overlooked the gentle eyes; a
chord was struck that echoed long after
seed was planted that in the years tc
E come bore, in the eyes of God, richer
fruit than the golden apples of Hesper.
: ides. .al..t...4......l D.. ..-...-...-
Such little things do mould our fates
such insignificant trifes sometimes open
the pearly gates of Paradise and shut the
frowning doors of He'll, bearing theil
glooming inscription" Leave hope be.
hind, who enters here y 6a, fl
"I.wish / was woman'' welled uI
from the depths of ycarning sympathy
with vague comprehension that age is
power power, the will to work. is'Iwish
| was woman!' 1t was the answer oi
: the individual to the universal cry il
was the promise of childhood to the fu
ture of its own anticipation lit was the
woman in the child leaning forward to the
. undeveloped woman-hood Of the soul.
al wish / was q woman I" And what
. then? Who remembers the promises Of
!, the past? 10 be woman! "Oh, God, y
, prayed the Indian father, z" let not my
child be "a girl, for very sorrowful is the
, lot of the woman ~ fn 13Ajo 10 e2H9
4 Standing facing the eternal hills, Q
a young girl pushed aside her waves of hair
9 and with lips apart, drank in the glory
: of the scene the purple mists, the tinted
: clouds, the ripening fields upon the noun
: tain's side of variously -colored grain, al
a agitated by turns this watching soul, Sc
: susceptible to beauty--so aspiring with
: gratitude. She thought-she, dcnizer
c of towns--that nothing the poets hat
e written, nothing imagination might con
. ceivc, could equal in loveliness thes'
s choice places of the earth !; the air, thu
!. light the leaves, were full of messages