Port Royal standard and commercial. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1874-1876, 1876-03-30


than pride,
All her misery, all their ply, Hannah bore
without complaint;
Till her hasting mother met her, pale and
breathlsss, with letter,
And she saw the superscription, and shrieked
Frederick |" and grew faint.
With quick hand the seal she broke. and she
neither breathed nor spoke,
But q sudden sshy paleness all her fair
face overspresd;
And terror seemed to hold her, and her cheek
grew cold and colder
And her icy fingers ratified on the paper as
she read.
In her chamber once alone, on the floor she
lay like stone,
With her bridal gear about her-al that idle,
fine array;
And the white moon, white and holy, to her
chamber bar climbed slowly,
And looked in upon the lowly, wretched lady
where she lay,
Why the ! tier was delayed, what the poor ex-
cuse he made1
Msttered little there to Hannah lying on the
moon-lit floor.
Twas his heart that had miscarried; for some
new toy he had tarried;
In q fortnight he was married, and she never
ssw him more.
Came tie glorious autumn dsys-goldsn hills,
csrulean haze.
And I'll Hannah kept her chamber with her
shame and her despair;
All the neigbbors and relations came and offer
cd consultations,
And the preacher preached up patience, and
remembered her in prayer.
Spite Of all that they could cay. Hannah
Amsden pined away.
Csme the dull days o. November, came the
winter, wild and white;,
Lonely, listless, hours together she would sit
and watch the weather,
Or the cold bright consultations pulsing in
the pa!lid night.
For twelvemonth and . day 60 poor Hannah
pined away.
Came once more the fatal morning, came the
dread hours that had been;
All the anguish she lived over, waiting, wailing
for her lover.
Then the new dawn shone about her, and .
sweeter dswr within.
All her soul blesched white and pure, taught
by suffering to endure,
Taught by scrrow to know sorrow, and to
bind the bleeding heart,
Now pale and placid sister in the world that
lately missed her
Sweetly pale where peace had kissed her
patient Hannah chose her part.
To do god was her delight, all her study day
and night;
And around her, like fragance in the halo
round saint,
Breathed the holy exslation Of her life and
occupation. ....
But the rising generation soon began to call
her quaint.
For her sen-forgetfulness even extended to
her dress;
Milliner aud mantuamaker never crossed
her threshold more; ....
But the bodice, and the bonnet with the Won
drous bow upon it,
Kept their never changing fashion OF the
faded years before.
So she etiu goes up and down on her errands
through the town;
AMI sometimes schoolgirl filters, or an
urchin stops to grin,
Or . " 'lage cur barks at her but to her tbs
little matter
You may fleer or you may fatter-such deep
peace her soul is in.
Among all the sick and poor there is nobody 80
OF . welcome and blessing and who sees
her once appear,
Coming round some poor mans trellis with her
dainty pots of jellies,
Or big basket brimmed with bounty, soon
forgsts that she is queer;
For her pleasant words, addressed to the needy
and distressed.
Are SO touching and go tender, full Of sympa-
thy and cheer,
By the time your smile is ready for the simple,
dear old lady,
It is pretty sure to tremble in the balance
with tear.
-Harper's Magazine.