Burlington free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1827-1865, 1865-09-22

N.RGERY GREY.
,r,r. c. R. DoRR. OF RUTLAND.

80 be cabin valid were cleaning I'D '"e sui"
cans golden glow
-, lovely April morning, near hunofeo
vcss sgo; .L
n, Msrgery Grey.
u her fearless blue eyes glsncing down the
,ssy forest way.
arms her laughing baby with i's fathers
hi hair played,
.o"na,pred there beside them leaning on his
MISTY spade;
81 az =, be too lonely, M.rgery, If leave
1.-THE day"
1T smiled cheerful snswer, ere shespoke
argle word,
"a 81 he tone Of her replying was I" sweet as
,nc Of bird;
,be said. I'm take the baby, and 20
n +,v With Annie Brown;
r. 7p,t meet Us there, dear Robert, ere the
,rn hsN quite gone down.
II Tn. tbey parted. Strong and sturdy all day
n long he lsbOred on.
s,,iing up the fertile acres from the stubborn
forest won;
| and when lengthenlng < shsdOns "1iHe1 N.A-4 '---
the sun was in the west,
Doru the woodland sislss he FASTENED, whisper
fug. e" Now for home and rest. "
a.. ben he reached the clearing Of their friend,
= nile away,
Neither wife nor child was waiting there to wei
come Robert Grey.
d. She is safe AT home," said Annie, " Tor she
went an hour ago
Il, Is strange did not meet her." came the
answer. quick and low.
Rack he .ped hut night was falling. and the
path he scarce could see'
Here and there his path was guided onward By
some deep gashed tree;
When at length he gained the cabin, hlack and
desolate il stood,
Cold the hearth, the window rsyle.s. in the still
lest solitude.
With uurmur,i prayer. a shudder. and sob
of anguish Wild.
Back he dAr ted through the forest, calling on his
wife aud child.
Soon the scattered settlers gathered from the
cle.rings far and near,
and the solemn woods resounded with their
voices ringing cfesr
Torches fared. and fires were kInde1, and the
horn. long peal rang out.
While the startled echoes answered TO the hardy
woodmsns shout;
But in vain their sad endeavor. night by night
and day By day;
For no sign nor token found they, OF the child
or Margery Grey
Woe wee for pretty Margerv with her baby
on her arm
On her homeward way she started. fearing moth
ing that could harm;
With lip and brow sntroubled, snd heart IN
utter rest.
Through the dim wood. ,be went singing to the
darling ,t her breast.
But IN sudden terror pausing, gaEed she round
in bank dismsy,-
Where we're all the white SCARED hemlocks point
ing out the lonely way
God Of Mercies She had wandered from the
pathw.y not tree.
Giving mute, but kindly warning, could her
strAining vision see !
Twilight ieepened into darkness, and the starr
came ont on high,
Ill wa, silent in the forest save the owls low
boding cry;
Round sboa, her in the midnight stealthy shsd'
ows softly crept,
And the babe upon her bosom closed its timic
.yes and slept.
Hsrk shout and in the distance enc coni'
zee torch's CLEAN;
Rut alas she could not reach it, ar 't vsniEaeI
like dream:
Tbco another thout.-snother, but she screame'
and sObbed in vain,
Rushing wildly toward the presence she coul'
never, never gain
Morning came, and with the surbeams hope an
courage rose once more;
Surely ere another nighfall her long wanderin
would be Ger;
So she .oothed the vsiling baby, and when fair
for want Of food,
Ate the vintergreens and scorns that she foun
within the wood.
q. the dsys so long and dreary o, the nigh
more dresry still!
Nor. than once rhe heard the sounding Of Il
horn from hill 10 hill,
More than once 8 smouldering fire in some she
terinp nook she found,
And she knew her husbands footprints close b
side IL on the ground.
D,rped the fourth relentless morning. and Il
sun's Implying eye
Looked upon the haggard mother, looked TO s.
the baby die;
1uSsv long II. plaintive meanings wrung Il
heart Of Msrgery Grey,
All night long her bosom Graded 1t, pail
thing of clay. 7
Three iays more she bore it with her, on b
rough and toilsome way,
TIL .cros. its marble beauty stole the plague-sp
Of decay;
TA.a she knew that she must leave 1t in the "
dernese TO sleep,
Where the proving wild beasts only. watch ADO
it. grave should keep.
Dumb with grief she sat beslde it. Ah be
loug she never knew
We're the tales her mother taught her OF the de
All-fsther true, I..
When the skies were braes above her. and
earth va. cold and dim,
And Wien all her teArs and pleadings oroug
no answer down from Him
But at last stern Life. the tyrsnt, bade her ia
her burden up
To her lips 40 pale and shrunken pressed ag'
the bitter cup;1
Cp che rose, sull tramping onward through
forest far and wide,
Til the Msy-Hovers bloomed and persisted.
the sweet june roses died ,
Til July and August brought ber fruits .
berries from their store;
TIL the golden-rod and sster said that sunni
vss no more; i-t r...rr. r--
Tin the NAPLES and the birches donned th
robes Of green and gold; s--.l
Till the birds were Fastening southward, and
DAYS ~sre growing cold
-N- -lIlE rIEoA VIZ
wss che doomed to roam forever o'er the dc
lated earfh,-4r a. fsf rr-I7 ..-.
She. the lsst and only being. in those wilds
human birth
Sometimes from her dresry pathway. volt
black bear turned away,
But not once did human presence bless the si
Of Margery Grey.
One chill morning in October. sh-n ths VIC
were brown and bare,
Through the streets Of ancient Chariestown,v y
astrsnge bewildered air,
Walked gaunt and pallid woman, whose