The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1867-06-26
Loved aud Lost.

\ Loved and lost 'Tis wall that is gol
ing up daily, aye hourly, unto Him thai
sits on the great white throne" from be-
reaved hearts with their burden Of sor.
row, too greyious for human strength or
human hearts to bear.
Loved and Lost From your heart, oh,
stricken widow as you stand by the cold
form Of your once strong protector, goes
up that bitter cry. He who ever shield
ed you with his protecting arm-who
carefully smoothed the rough places iu
your life path, lest they should bruise
your tender feet-whose tender voice
never addressed you savein love, he who
ever stood between you and the great
cold world, breasting all its storms and
cares with his own manly bosom, that
they harmed you not, is gone forever !;
and you knecling beside his lifeless re-
mains, with your fatherless children cling.
ing around you realize more and more
your utter helplessuess aud the great loss
you have sustained your pale lips burst
the mourniul cry, Loved and lost r.
And you too, mourning husband who
have laid you fair wife asleep in the
embrace Of mother earth. She went
from you ere yet her bloom faded With
the tiny babe Cher child and yours) that
but opened his eyes on earth to close
them in DEATH clasped so close 10 her
girlish bosom, mother and child, rose and
bud, are sleeping together beneath one
coffin lid, one grave holds. them both now,
while your home has grown strangely des
olate since she whose light footsteps ever
sprang to welcome your return to the
house which she presided over like o
queen--has gone from it to her last earth
ly home. : a = w ~
The grave yard is not SO lonely in youl
eyes since she is among its silent inhsbi
tants. You 60 to her lonely grave and
kueel beside it and while you water with
your tears the lilies {tit emblems of hel
purity that bloom over tbe grassy mound
that holds all that you held dear on earth
you feel the full significance of those
dreary words, loved and lost
Loved and lost On your bowed head
oh, aged mother you who gave your on
ly son and stay in your old age, unto
your country (; on your head these words
rest like a funeral pail. You read his
name among the list of the dead who iel
before Richmond, and the terrible truth
that you were now childless, came home
to your heart with crushing truth, anG
bowing your aged head y ou too echo tht
bitter wall going up from so many hearts
"Loved and Lost !"
Loyed and lost Who that has ar
rived at years of discretion has not ech
oed these sad, sad words, that tell plairel
than the greatest foods Of tears, Of hope
crushed and bruised beneath the coffin
lid, Of broken hearts and blasted livel
gone forevcrmore. Loved and lost !
Since the terrible food of war rollec
over our own dear land, we have learnet
the full meaning Of those bitter words
Loved and lost y Ali over the lapt
there isnourning mothers for their sons
weeping wives for husbands, cbildreI
for fathers, maidens for lovers,
| Loved and lost The same cry tha
went up from Israel's plain centuries ag,
is being echoed and re.echoed throughou
the world, for from the rising of the sui
till its sitting, death is ever abroad bust
ly gathering up his harvest and not un
til all things shall end will that wear,
cry cease. Then all shall meet in tn
Spirit Land and the loved and lost,