Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-05-06
A Diving Wife to her Husband.

The following most touching fragmen
of letter from q dying wife to her hus
band was found by him, some months
after her death, between the leaves of a
religious volume which she was very
fond of perusing. The letter, which wa:
literally dim with tear marks, was writ
ten long before the husband was aware
that the grasp of fatal disease had fas'
tened upon the lovely form of his wife,
who died ut the early age of nineteen:
" When this shall reach your eye,
dear c., some day when you are
turning over the relics of the rast, | shall
have passed away forever, and the cold
white stone be keeping its lonely watc!'
over the lips you have so OFTEN pressed,
and the sod will be growing that shall
hide forever from yous sight the dust Of
one who has so often nestlel close to your
warm heart. For many long and sleep
less nights, when all my thoughts were
at rest, have wrestled with the consci-
BUSINESS of approaching death, until at
last it has forced itself upon my mind :
and although to you and to others it
might seem but the nervous imagination
Of girl, yet, dear C, is it not SO ?
Many weary hours have passed IN the
eudeavor to reconcile myself to lea ing
you, whom loyc so well, aud this brigh;
world Of sunshine aEd Aeaaty; and hard
indeed is it to struggle SO s;lentIy qlone,
with the sure conviction THAI am abon,
to leave all forever and 60 down alone
Into the dark valley !
But know in whom have trusted,
ana leaning upon His arm, fear no evil
Don't blame me for keeping all tais even
from yca. How conld | subject you. OF
all others, to sici. sorrow rs ! feel at
parting, when time will socn make it ap.
parent to you? could have wished IL
live, if only to be a: your side when yong
time shall come, and pillowing your head
upon my breast, wip, the death lampS
from yonr brow. and usher your depart.
ing spirit into its Makers presence, en-.
balmed in womans holiest prayer. But
it is not to be so-and submit.
"Yours is the privilege Of watching
through long and dreary nights, for the
spirits final flight, and Of transferring my
sinking hea from your breast to the Sa
viour's bosom! And you STALL share my
last thought; the last faint pressure ct
the hand, and the last feeble kiss shall be
yours; and even when flesh and heart
shall have failed mc, my eye shall rest
OH yours until glazed by death-and our
spirits shall hold one las, fond communion
until gently fading from my view-lhe
last Of earth-.you shall minslc with the
first bright gIinp=as of the unElding glo-
ries of that better world, where partings
are unknown. We'll do know the spot,
dear C., where you will lay ME
often have we stood by the place. and as
we watched the mellow sunset as it
glanced in quiyering flashes through the
leaves and frightened The grassy mounds
around us with stripes Of burlishcd gold,
each has thought that one of us would
come alone; and whichever it might be,
your name would be on the stone. But
you loved the spot; and know you'll
love me none the less when you see the
same quiet sunlight lineeF 4nd clay among
the grass that covers your Marv's grave.
know you will 60 ofien alone, when |
am laid there, aid my spirit will be with
you then, aud whisper among the waving
branches. Not lost. but gone before"