Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1868-02-28

and -ado as though he would have come near
-. Ihon, pointing to tho bed, he burst into
tcars for the first time, and they who stood
by, knowing That the sight Of this child had
done him good, left them alono together. g.l
Soothing him with his artless talk of her,
tho child persuaded him to take some rest, to
walk abroad, to do almost as he desired him.
And, when the day came on which they must.
romove Ihsr,,in her earthly shape, from earth
ly oyea forever, ,ihe led him away, that ho
might not kns% when she was taken from
him, They w&eefreto gather fresh leaves and
Eberries for hor bed. ~ '', t',f,.,
| and now tho bcll-tl. bell she had SO Oft.
len heard ard by night and day, and listened to
with solemn pleasure, almost as living voice
-rung its remorscless toll for her, 10 Young,
so beautiful, 50 good. Dccrcpit agc, aid VIC.
orous life, and blooming youth, and helpless
infancy, poured forth-on orutchcs, in the
prideof health and strength, in the full blush
of promise, in the mere dawn of ifc-to
lgathcr, round her tomb Old men were there,
whose eyes were dim and senses failing;
grahdnothers, who might have diod ten years
ago, and still been old !; tho doaf, tho blind
tho lamo, 5pals!od---the living dead, in many
shapes and forms,--to SEQ the closing Of that
early grave. @ 'o .''"
Alongthe crowded path they bore her now,
purc as the newly fallen snow that covered it
whose day on earth had been as hecting.--
Under that porch where she had sat when
Heaven in its mercy brought her to that
peaceful spot, she passed again, and tho old
church received her in it's quiet shade.
They carried her to one old nook, where
she had, many and many time sat musing
and laid their burden softly on the pavement
The light streamed on it through the colorcd
window--a window whore the boughs of trees
were ever rustling in tho summer, and where
the birds sang ,swcctly all day long. With
every breath Of air that stirred among those
branches in tile sunshine, some trembling
changing light would fall upon her grave.
,Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Many young hand dropped in its little wreath,
many stifcd sob was heard. Some-and
they wero not fcw-kpclt down. All were
sincero and truthful'in their sorrow. Tho
service done, the ,nourncrs stood apart, and
tho villagers closed round to look into the
grave before tho stone should be replaced.
Ono called to mind how ho had seen her
sitting on that very spot, and how her brook
had fallen on her lap, and she was gazirg,
with nensiye face, upon the sky Another
told how he had wondered much that one so
delicate as she should be SO bold, how she had
never feared to enter the church alono at
night, but had loved to lingcr there when all
was quiet, and even to climb the towcr-stair,
with no moro light than that of tho moon.
rays, stealing through the loop in the
thiokold walls. IL whisper went about among
tho oldest there, that she had seen and talked
with angels; and when they called to mind
how she had looked, and spoken, and hcr
early death, somc thought it might be so in
dced..gt ia. @,;.
Thus coming to the grave in little knots,
and glancing down, and giving place to 9th
ors, and falling of in whispering groups of
three or four, the church was cleared, in tmo,
Iofall but the sexton and the mourning friends
'Ihen, when tho dusk Of evening had come
on, and not a sound disturbed tho sacred still
ness of the place: when tho bright moon
poured in her light on tomb and monument
on pillar, wall, and arch, and, most OF all, it
seemed to thcm, upon her quiet grave; in
that calm time, when all outward things and
inward thoughts teom with assurances of I'M.
mortality, and worldly hopes and fears arc
humblcd in tho dust before them, thon, NTH
TRANQUIL and submissive hearts, they turned
away, and left tho child with God.
JSlH@ 1"s'a,&r a'i :g CHARLES DICKENS.
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