Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-01-19
rHnENopY.

Along the melancholy silent hill
He takes his way !; cold IS the air around
And bitter piercing. In the freezing stream
He hastens. and returns to climb the rocky
ground
Not knowing whittier. needing not the sound
OF horses step. Ibis hands are Gallons nov
TO brides touch in tOrror to the ground
He falls and gropes in darkness to the brow i
OF eliao'erhanging waters rolling far below.
Past suffering. there he sinks upon the sod. .
Unseen. save by the queen of nights pale
beams.
The Pallid moon; unheard. save by the God
OF all; and there in silent stiffness dreams
His soul into angelic arms. which seem
To beckon and await to lead him now
To joys unspeakable. There by the stream
He lies. the hear frost gathered on his brow;
Lies, beaming in the arms Of cold deaths icy
glow.
Twas there they found him on the bleak hill
top,
TAe tempest's home in snowy shrOud. alone,
Cold and dead they fonBd him i; no other prop
To pillow his fair head than blocks of stone
And ice; none other watchful friends around
Than waving ghostly trees and hollow song
Of winds that sung his requiem and the sonnd
Of maddened waters as taey swept along
Their banks. solemn disge for him that died
thus Young.
There in his coffin S crystal case he lies "a &
Departed, parted from us and his pains.
Stifened beneath his brow. his sightless eyes
The rose has Aed his lips in icy chains
His body lies enwrapt; in that cold bed
Benumbed and stiff he crept alone to die s
On that drear mound he sowly laid his head
Around him heard tie angels whispered cry.
And breathed ont life's faint breath in one last
dreaming sigh. R
Come. friends in softest vestments now array
him;
In warnest garments from all suffering free
And on his weary couch now gently lay him
sad. 0painful sight and let him be
High heaped with flowers, though deadened
all when he
Did die Come heap the flowers mountain
high.
Cold flowers of winter. emblems Of purity;
Come take your last fond look and breathe
sigh, Ab
And pray the soul may passto meet its God on
High. + iF
er
o chilling winds. now pitiiully groan
Rivers and springs. for this our loved one
weepl
o plants. drop tearsl o trees. lamenting moani
Breathe out your life, pale wreaths; your per
fumes deep E'Es @as
In grief. O cypress and sweet flowers, steep
o wintry winds. in murmurs yet prolong
The saddening woe their secret folds yet keep;
For thou alone did'st huh him with thy song.
And thou alone did'st see. him sink to that last
sleep.
Give comfort, Heavenly Father. yet to those
Who wait and wall and weep their loved one
gone sE
And with their gentle care soothe all their
woes.
Tell them thy kindly spirit ever shone
Upon him; with thy radiant smile look down
EUpon a grieTing sister; strengthen with thy
might
The father: whisper that loving son
Awaits him. happy, mid eternal light.
Where darkness never comes and where there is
no night.
Touch gently with thy hand the moaning
Who mourng him, and who sings the wailing
song rt v @
He hears not. with intent TO call her love
Back from thy throne and from the shining
throng
Of angels, where be stands brightest among
Thy worshippers. On her grief when her
love died u Alsa
Who would not weep for her In mournful
-.
For her fountains gush from mountain side
Melt, icy drops, from grief; city and tomb
In sympathy cry out Thy will. o Cod. BE