The democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1868-1874, 1874-11-30
a DOVER OF ROSES.

It was allBhelhad when she came 10
me-a bunch OF Juno roses. Their
sweet scent now carries me back 10 me
Hme-the warm, sunny, GUNNER morn
ing-when she stood at my door in her
little cotton gown, tho roses trembling
inher timid grasp, and her great brown
= eyes wet with tears, looking up, pie.
ously, into mine. Ten-twenty-ho,p
many years ago isiti All me land /
still liyel j was younger woman then.
My life was one long day OF pleasure.
Wy husband loved mel worshiped
him but yeti was not happy. Like
Rechel, mourned and wept, and
would not be comidrted. "a Give me
children, or ] die, twas the bitter cry
/ nioaned incessantly. Then there
came 10 me one day, in answer to nv
lfebellious, wicked thought, great
sorrow. Death instead OF life lay on
my bosom, and / found myself, while
still,a young woman, widowed as well
When I awoke from the terrible
apathy Of grief, which held me for a
time In Its pitiless embrace, I looked
around me, and Thought, aThere is
surely something for me 10 do in this
great world. l will make reparation
for my sin. May there not be in this
vide world some little child as lone as
y1?-some motherless one, WHO hhall
be waiting for-the childless p Then
s I determined TO search for such one,
and Imade the tour. religiously, Of all
1sthe charitable institutions, far and
near. II was to me religion, for I
went with an earnest, penitent heart.
"I'shall know her, when Isee her. /
would answer the many friends who all
thought they knew the child I wanted,
and still l went ON searching through
city and town. I found many little
ones who needed oil the help that I
freely. offered, but none that I felt in
my heart was the little child for whom
! longed-who should be waiting for
mel - go ~ =
A year passed thus, and by the grave
faces and half,heard whispers Of my
> friends, rsaws they thought my grief
had turned my brain, and that I sought
but phantom Of my imagination.
The time came, however, when I found
my child They were going through
the sick.ward Of q Home. for Friend.
less Little Ones "in an Eastern city,
one day in. Juno, when, from o little
cot in the extreme corner OF the room,
Isaw two great brown eyes looking up
D OF me piteously. Ileit my ycompanions
hurriedly to run toward the bedside,
and STOPPING down I passionately
kissed the beautiful face.
care you my, mammaS the seit
voice asked, treinulously, the little face
flushing with pleasure beneath my
warm careEges. bgsl M .lisailIo)
eyes, my darling / whispered
back, "I am your mamma and she
clasped her arms round my neck in q
close embrace, that knit my heart to
hers forever after
Alb, ] knew then that my husband in
heaven had sent me to this little one /;
for I saw him looking through her eyes
straight into minel I asked few. anes.
4. Gtions; concerning her, and they told mo
little; knowing nothing more than that
ahewas . waif rescued from the TEMPEST
OF the wicked. outside world; but this
much I gladly learned. .lshe should be
mine 1 Iwanted her u ohceAto take
her with me in my carriage at the door
but IL was necessary, they told me,
. in order that she might illegally mine,
thata form should be preliminary gone
through with, before I could take her
from 1.-THE i Home y and 30 was
Obliged To- wait another day for my
childi Idreamed OF her all night, and
my husband came to me, saying, dYou
hays done. well r. ...i .5tf.4a
With the dawn Of day was awake.
Ny prayers rose high with the rising oi
. the sun, and ] began TO feel o blessed
peace: Iawaited impatiently the hour
when ! should have my darling. Al
last 9 timid knock at the door made my
heart leap for Joy, and opening, there
she stood-a little child with bunch Of
roses They were her dover from the
only home abe knew-a home Of charity
and yet the tears still trembled In
her eyes, and the soba were torn from
her baby breast 10 leaving I'll i folded
her close TO my bosom, and told her
she was my own little daughter now.
that God had sent me TO be her nam.
s rna=-and she laughed up at me through
her tears, and put thefoses in my hand,
saying;
"1Sbring them 10 you." Z e
'faI called her Rosemarie, for ahe was
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