The Huntington argus. [volume] (Huntington, W. Va.) 1872-1905, 1873-02-15
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Near our sovth- western border. when a child
Dies in the cabin of an Indian wife,
She wraps it tenderly in delicate furs,
Blankets and bark, and binds it to the branch
'f some majestic tree, with lesthern thongs
Ana sinews of the deer. A mother once
wrought at this pious task, and murmur'd thus;
Child of my love! do not lay thee down
Among the chilly clods, where never comes
Inc pleasant sunshine. There the greedy wolf
Might break into thy grave aud tear thee Theme.
And should sorrow all my life | make
Ihy little bed where he who dwells among
Inc rustling leaves, the gentle summer wind,
shall come to rock thee. Here the morning sun.
winch woke thee once from sleep to smile on
Me- shall shine upon thy rest, aud sweetIy here
shall lie the red light Of the evening clouds.
Which called thee once to .Iunber. Her. the
stars
shall look upon theo-the bright stars of night.
Which thou didst wonder at. Here. too. the
birds,
Whose music thou didst love shall sing to thee.
And near thee build their nests and rear their
young,
With none to scare them. Here the forest
flowers,
Whose opening in the spring time thou didst
greet
with shouts Of joy, and which 50 well became
Thy pretty hands when thou didst gather them.
Shall spot the ground below thy resting place.
Yet happy there are fairer flowers than these.
WHICH, IN the land Of souls, thy spirit plucks,
In fields that wither not, among a crowd
OF joyous children like thysclf, who went
Before thee To that brighter land, and sport
Eternally beneath its stormlcss skies.
sport with them, dear, dear child till shall
come
To dwell with thee; and thou, boholdtng me
From far, shall run and leap in o my arms,
Aud shall clasp thee as | elias ped thee here
lille liying-oh, most beautiful and sweet
or children! now more passing beautiful,
II that can be, with eyes like summer stars
light that death can never quench again
And now, wind, that here among the leaves
Dost whisper, breathe thou ever softly thus.
ON, put not forth thy strength to rend away
The branches, and let fall their precious load
prey to foxes. Thou, too, ancient sun,
Beneath whose eye the seasons come aud 60,
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While thou dost never change. oh, call not up
with thy strong heats. the grim, dark thunder
cloud,
To smite this tree with boIts Of FIRE, and tear
The trunk, aud strcw the ground with spin
tered boughs.
We Rains, fail softly on the couch that holds
Ny darling. There the pauther's speekled -kin
Shall turn aside the shower, and be 1t long,
Long after thou and have met agnin,
Ese summer winds aud winter rains shall waste
This couch, and all Of thee that now is left
To me thy mother. Meantime, while live,
With each returning sunrise shall seem
To zee thy waking smile, and shall weep.
And when the sun B. setting -haI think
How, a. 1 watched thee, DER thy sleepy eyes
Dropped the smooth lids aud laid On tine round
check
Their inshos. and my tears will How again,
And often. 600 those moments. shall seem
To hear gain the -wcetly pratu,d name
Which thou diIst call mc boy. and IT. will haunt
Ny home 600 I depart to- Doe with thee.