The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-11-10
CHILDREN'S COLUMN.
A Child's Dream of q Star

There was once child, and he stroled
about q good deal, and thought of a num-
Der of things. He was sister, who was
a child, too, and his constant companion.
These two used TO wonder all day long.
They wondered at the beauty of the flow
ers; they wondered at the hight and the
blueness of the sky they wondered at the
depth of the bright water; they wondered
at the goodness and the power of God who
made the lovely world. r... ....,
They used to say to one another, some
times, supposing all the children upon the
earth were to die, would the flowers and
the water and the sky be sorry? They be-
lieved they would be sorry? For, said they,
the buds are children of the flowers, and
the little playful streams that gambol down
the hillsides are the children of the Water
and the smallest bright specks playing at
hide and-seell in the sky all night must
surely be the children of the stars, and
they would all be grieved to see their
playmates, the children of men, no more
There was one clear bright star that used
to come out in the sky before the rest, near
the church spire above the graves. 1t was
large and more beautiful, they thought,
than all the others; and every night they
watched for it, standing hand-in-hand at a
window, Whoever saw it first cried out,
II see a star !" And often they cried out
both together, knowing so well when it
would rise, and where. So they grew to
be such friends with 1t, that, before lying
down in their beds, they always looked out
once again to bid it good night, and when
they were turning round to sleep, they used
TO say, "God bless the star!"
But while she was very young, o very,
very young, the sister dropped, and came
to be 80 weak that she could no longer stand
in the window at night and then the child
looked sadly out by himself, and when he
saw the star. turned round and said to the
patient pale face on the bed, 81 see the
star y and then smile would come upon
her face, and little weak voice used to
say, "God bless my brother and the star p
And so the time came, all too soon,
when the child looked out alone, and when
there was no face on the bed; and when
there was a little grave among the graves
not there before; and when the star made
long rays down towards him, as he saw it
through his tears.
Now these rays were so bright and they
seemed to make such a shining way from
earth to heaven, that when the child went
to his solitary bed, he dreamed about the
star; and dreamed that lying where he
was, he saw train Of people taken up that
sparkling road by angels. And the star,
opening, showed him great world of light,
where many more such angels waited to
receive them.
All the angels who were waiting, turned
their beaming eyes upon the people who
were carried up into the star; and some
came out from the long rows in which they
stood, and fell upon the peoples necks,
and kissed them tenderly, and went away
with them down avenues of light, and were
so happy in their company, that lying ia his
bed, he wept for joy.
But there were many angels who did not
go with them, and among them one he
knew The patient face that once had lain
upon the bed was gloriied and dani,
but his heart found out hi, sister anon all
the hosts. ..It
His sisters angel lingerad near the en-
trance of the star, and said to the leader
among those who had brought the people
thiiher,-
sis my brother Gomez"
And he said, "No."
She was turning hopefully away when
the child stretched out his arms. and cried,
so sister am here Take me !" and then
she turned her beaming eyes upon HIM,
and it was night and the star was shining
into the room, making long rays down to-
wards him, az he saw 1t through his tears.
From that time forth the child looked out
upon the star as on the home he was to go
to, when his time should come; and he
thought that he did not belong to the earth
alone, but to the star, too, because of his
sisters angel gone before
There was a baby born TO be brother
to the child and while he was 80 little that
he had never yet spoken word, he stretch
ed his tiny form out on his bed and died.
Again the child dreamed of the opened
star, and of the company of angels, aud the
train of people, and the rows of angels,
their beeming eyes all turned upon those
peoples face.
Said his sisters angel to the LEADER O
''Is my brother come p fN'A x
And he said, "not that one, but another. II
AS the child beheld has brothers angel in
her arms, he cried, 80 sister, am here
Take me - Aud she turned and tmiled up.
on him, and the star was shining.
He grew to be young man, and was