The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-03-20

you've, parted, and henceforth ex-
lstence became q protracted anguish
compared {. to which 'annihilation,
would have heen infinite enjoyment.
"Deprived Of the light of hia
presence and the strength he impart-
ed to my spirit, which drew it's very
life from his, 1 dropped until it
seemed that one step more would
place me in, that tremendous realm
"herc s:iiii ttiiat ttiiiat is dark and shadowy
now will be. clear as the MONDAY.
I'm our hours of happiness, when,
from the addition which the contrast
of. the pictured possibility of our
separation afforded to the Joy of our
union, we had promised each other
that if snch parting ever took place,
we would exercise the mysterious
power of what the Germans call
oeuteroscopy, and by it's awful agency
impose our visible presence upon
each other In the morbid condi.
tion produced by my shattered
health, and the intolerable misery of
a separation from him, this promise
came back to me with the vividness
of lightning, shedding brilliancy ON
my darkened spirit, and placing be-
fore me the overpowering bliss of his
presence, until all thought was
merged in one absorbing desire to
exercise the my site, fatal power, and
purchase one moment of wild, un-
earthly ecstacy, though it were paid
for by n lifetime of suffering greater
than I then endured.
Zone night, while I lay in the
splendor of my gilded bed, and
heard, as my attendants retired,
their half-smothered exclamations
that my beauty was too glorious for
earth, I drew the heavy curtains
closely around me, and fixing my
thoughts upon him with concen-
tration that required the utmost ex-
ertion of my unutterably powerful
will, 1 said the awful words, which,
while my body lay with all its essen
tiel attributesappar undisturbed,
would convey that body visibly and
tangibly into the presence of him
who was more than my life.
"a fiery tingling sensation culver
ed through my brain; there came
sound like the rushing of many
waters, then what seemed a few
seconds of dreamy scmi-conscious-
ness. and then I awoke to the know
ledge that 1 was gliding, with q
conviction of being invisible, through
the gloomy corridors of that Rhine
castle, which had so often echoed to
our laughter and our love. Swiftly
and with the lightness of disem-
bodied spirit, I passed along through
rooms to each of which was linked
some happy memory, until I paused
at the door of one which l knew but
too well. Pausing for an instant to
stay the tumultuous throbbing Of
my heart, which seemed to stife me,
and saying to myself in low tone of
inexpressible ecstacy: L shall see
him! [ entered the room and saw
him!
''Saw him in whom my soul was
bound up, sleeping that sleep from
which even my love could not awaken
him. Saw him lying in his coffin,
with hands crossed over the breast
which had once responded with wild
love to my slightest em3tion, but
whose marble coldness not even the
agon1es OF my broken heart could
now stir to one pulsation. Grasped
in his dead hands was the lock of my
hair he had cut off when we parted,
and still seemed to cling to it with
his old passionate fondness. His
beautiful eyes were sealed by deaths
fingers, but raised their yelled lids,
and oh! heaven of happiness, tho old
look came back to them, and l knew
that in death rs in life he was niue!
"Roland Douglas, moments of the
misery l then endured, accomplished
he work OF years-behold their ef-
fect!"
She rose, and drawing her majestic
form to its full height, unwound the
tnrban which encircled her head.
AS she did SO, her hair fell in heavy
shower below her knees; soft, thick
and of wonderful fineness, but as
white as snow.
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