The Weekly Perrysburg journal. [volume] (Perrysburg, O. [Ohio]) 1861-1???, 1867-12-20

FOR THE SEASON.
A POEM FOR THE PERIOD.
BY TON noon, JR.

a motler rdtches By her SICK b0Je.)
Round about the easement
Wall the winds of winter,
Shaken from the frozen ewes -r,
Many an ICY splinter,
On the hillside, in the hollow,
Weaving wreaths of snow
Now in gusts solemn music
Lost in murmurs low
HOwling now across the void
In its shrOud-like vastness,
Like the wolves about a fold
In scIhe Alpine fastness,
Hungeted by the cold.
THE mother sings.)
Babe of mine-babe of mine,
Must | lose you?
Dare | weep if the Divine r..
viii should choose your
All, to mourn, as I have smiled,
At the thought of you, my child
An my child-my childl
Babe Of mine, you entwine
With existence
If one strips the clngiug vine
There's resistance
Shall not them | talk wild,
Seeing Death so near my child:
Alb my chld-my child
Babe of mne-heart's best wine,
Lifc's pure esrcnce!
Gloomy shadows, that define
Deaths near presence,
Dim those dear eyes undefiled
AS Gods viOlets- ah, my chidl
ALI my child my chile
The imperial purple of the night
Is spread wine dnIk above,
But glistens with no gems of light,
To hint ef heavens love.
A sombre pail hangs overhead,
Fringed with lurid clouds of lead
Der the sleeping earth below
One long wide waste of silent snow.
Aud the wind means drearily
As it wanders by,
And the night wanes wcarily
In the starlit sky.
(Thc mother sings)
Must the dear eyes close
, Must the lips be still ?
How | love their speech that flows
Like a wanton ril
Must those checks, soft-tinged with rose,
Palld grow and chill?
Give her back to me- angel in Disguise
Say your mystery shall leain-yct with tear
less eyes.
BY the pNnRs, the prayers
BY the mothers gee!
BY her hopes, her fears, her cares,
Give my child to me
Give it back to me-
Quenehcd the eyes soft light
Hush the cowslip breath
Going, darling, in the night?
Sparc-Oh, spare her, Death!
Dyiug-is il so?
Oh it must not be
Can my poor treasure go?
Give her back to me,
Give her back to me-
Or take me too-left alone,
Now my little one is gone;
All! my child! my child
Among the clouds that sailed o'erhead
yellow radiance is shed
And DER the hill-tops wrapped in snow
Is borne tinge Of rosy glow.
Within the air stir-like wings
or angels in their minist'rings-
A tremulOus motion and a thrill,
As with faint light tie heavens fill.
Nights spmber clouds are slow Withdrawn,
And Nature cries awake, tits dawn"
About the lonely easement
Blows fresh the dawn of day:
The mother, in amazcment,
Sees death eloonls fade away
The blue eyes open once again.
Once more the lips have smiled;
Her tears fell like the springtime rain
God gives her back her child
(Footsteps are heard under The ,rimdorr.)
Hush there are footsteps on the snow,
That pause the lattice-pane below
While voices chant the carol-rhymes,
The Christmas song of olden times.
(Cdroil,rs sing an ancient carol
Awake, good Christians Long ago
The shepherds walked at night,
And saw the heavens with glory glow,
And angels in the light.
Hosannah sing, Hosannah sing,
Hosannah in the hight
New life they told to all on earth,
New life and blessing bright,
Forewarning of the Savior's birth,
In Bethlehem this night.
Hosannah sing, HOsannah sing,
Hosannah in the hightl
New life to all-ncw life to all
The tidings good rectel
New life to all, which did befall
AT Bethlehem this night.
Hosannah sing, Hosannah! sing,
Hosannah in the hight
The voices hushed-the footsteps died
In distance far aloOf-
It seemed a blessing did abide
Upon that silent roof
AS far away their CHEEKY singing
Upon the frosty air came ringing.
Among the clouds that sail o'erhead
A yellow glory is outspread;
And TN the hill-tops crowned with SHOWS
A rosy blushing radiance grows,
As wider still the warm light glows;
And flooding daylight falls again
From cloud to hill--from bill to plain
A golden sea Of swimming light
Pored o'er the sombre shores of night,
While the glad mother, to her breast
Her child yet close and closer pressed
Her rescued treasure--newly born
Her babe--gigen back on Christmas morn