Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-10-30
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
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Home Is Where the Heart Is.

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Home is Where the Heart Is.
"Youmay take the bright shell
From its home on the lea,
And wherever it goes
1t will sing of the sea.
So take the fond heart
From its home and 1t hearth,
1t will sing of the loved
To the ends of the earth"
! Yes, the hearts first love is immortal.
it can never die Like the fires of the
soul it burns on through all of life, with
peculiar and romantic power The love
we bear our mother is the hearts first i'm
press. 1t is written there as with a pen
of the Divinity. and her angel image once
engraved there, fills up the entire space of
the souls memory, as the stars do the
celestial sapphire However various or
eventful subsequent changes may be,
while ever the heart beats true to life, no
powers of earth can bury this love in any
OF Lethes fabled waters, tor even when
long years have gone down the tide OF
time, her sanity image, with others of
life's early divinities. come up before Us,
ever and anon, like the fancy dreams of
Garth happiest and balmicst hours.
The true love of the hearts early fires
can never forget its kindredships
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may separate the object OF its affection, it
makes daily visits on the wings of thought
to their dwelling places far, far away.
Even the country of our birth, the hills
and dales, the brooks and rivers, are re
nlembered with an ELECTION which even
the storms of revolutions fail to obiiter-
ate. True 10 this life sentiment the Swiss
girl sings plaintively as the dying swan
sings his own requiem
"By the dark waves of the rolling sea-
Where the white sailed ships are tossing free,
There SITS a mournful maiden,
Pale and sorrow laden,
And 80 mourfully sings She
q, take me back TO Switzerland,
Upon mountain lef me stand:
III brave all dangers OF the main,
To sec my own dear land again.
The hope of gun and the glitter of gold
leads many an aspiring youth from his
home and his hearth, and all he holds
dear; but long before his enterprise is
accomplished, ten thousand times his
heart feels the bitter pangs of his own
self punishment, and true to 1.-The irr,a-
presslble conflict" it yields TO the ruling
divinity. and sings of the loved,
To the ends of the EARTH
The tender mother, though advanced
in years, and unable to leave her treside
travels away in the chariot of her thought
and heart, over many long and weary
miles in pursuit of her wandering son.
and whispering in his ear, like an angel
spirit, her love airesh. She leaves iim
only when gentle sleep has closed the
door of his thought, and even then she
fingers still to see that he seens we'll and
that no one is near to disturb his slum-
bers.
But to wean us from our present abode,
to make even death itself welcome. and TO
lead US to place our affections on things
above, the order of na.ure,i in the hands of
in the Diyine Power, is ever hiding away
the dim and mystic twilight of the grave,
one after another of life's dearest loved
ones. The gleeful fireside grows lonely
with its silence, and the song of the
cricket in the wall sounds like the knell
of departing greatness The shadows of
the eternal future fall upon our own feet,
and The warning is given us that
Gan is mortal here below
From the portals beyound the river, we
hear the songs of the loved and the lost,
and the heart looks out wishfully, hope
fully, yea, and with confidence for the
last, the higher and the better home.
Beautiful, beautiful indeed must that
home be, where love gathers all her lost
ones, where the slips company meet
again. and where the death knell shall be
heard no more.
BEAUTIFUL EXPERIMENT.
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