The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1876-03-28
Dying.
ny CAPT. EoBERr PHELPS, A. NJ.

Throw up the window, darling-draw up the cur
tain high
Let in the glowing sunlight, fresh from the
morning sky:
Let in the breeze from the hill tops pure with
its breath Of BALM
Laden with odor of blossoms-singing its sound
ing psalm;
Let in the jubilant bird notes, borne from the
swaying elms,
Burdenod with joy and gladnes', thrilling the
leafy realms.
| know am dying, dearest but cannot for
boar to hear
The music of natures voices reaching me eVe"
here
Here in my sick room, crowded with Visions oil
p;,o;nc ,r;tb melodies olden of love and joy and
praise;
For the scent of the apple blossoms brings to my
dreaming mind
The days Of our youthful wooing chat the years
have left behind;
gain inhals the freshness of the breeze on my
native hills,
nd bu=k iu the golden sunlight that boyhood's $
heaven fills;
Again through my heart is creeping the soul en-
kindlng glow
That told the tale of the boy love, in the season.
long ago.
Again | staud beside you, on the mountains rug.
ged brow,
And list to the birds and the breezes, just as
hear them now,
And gaze on the visioned future spreading be
fore me there,
Dotted with dream wrought castles and palace:
stately and fair;
While through its aowery pathways, stridng
with equal pace,
Love and Fame 60 wandering. twined in clost
embrace.
And as / gaze at the vision, born Of hope divine
Still leaps my heart at tho pressure Of thy soft
warm hand in mine;
While, borne by the willing breezes up to my
eager lips,
The wealth of thy golden tresses in my vision
sole eclipse:
All It's sweet. sad vision of the balcyon day
gone by,
Painting the clouds Of our sunset, gliding ou
evening sky
We have grown old together, and seen ou
castles fall,
Crumbling one after another, till ruin ongulfe,
them all;
Yet in their places have risen structures NOR
| stately and fair,
W. M1b ban %anv IA an tes eslneg paS prayer have
And though in the earth cods the builders hav
planted each foundation stone
The palaces tower in the cloud land, and tn
spires to heaven have grown,
Eaeh pointing with glittering finger from th
cross we have borne in the past
| To the ;oy-lighted crown in the heavens, tn
need of our triumph at last
The golden skies of childhood have taken cas-
Of grey,
And Love and Fame no longer through futurity'
visions stray
Hand in hand as they once did for Fame ha
vanished from sight,
While Love has grown purcr and stronger sinc
his comradc has taken his flight.
Yet for the joys of our childhood, that could no
escape decay,
We have tnsted a happiness purer that neve
shall fade away;
For it stretches from here to hereafter, ard GU
lives have become part
OF the life Of that promised future, the goal of tn
weary heart,
And the heavenliest joy Of our earth life bu
family foreshadows tho bliss
Of that region whose loftiest pleasures are born
the trials of this:
The trials ,-ah sore was the parting with til
! babes that our journey had blessed,
As they faded one after another, and PEACEFUL
went to their rest
Aud We thought, as we teariully laid them i
their beds that were narrow and deep
Twere the sweetest of boons God could grant u
in their graves with our darings to sleoI
But the passing years softened oar sorrow, an
we saw, through the mist of tears,
ihc tiuth thht our nchTth nhu rejected III III
gloom Of the grief burdened years
That when in :he earth's cold embraces we lai
: the dear pledges of love,
We but planted the seeds for the harvest to bloo
in the gardens above.
We have grown old together, travelling hand
hand,
Treading the thorny pathway that leads to ii
better land;
But never the frosts Of winter have chilled love
! ardent glow,
For our hearts are still us youthful they wei
in the long ago.
But now the journey is ended; | have almo
reached the shore
OF the shadow haunted river, and the strugg
will soon be Ger.
And though we have journeyed together almo
Alono 1 must cross the river, and you on IL
: shore must wait
The clasp that has never been severed must Sc
y arate here at last,
Y And the joy and the sorrow Of living hencofor
be but things Of tho past
The hearts so long united by mystic gold'
chain
In the hands of the fell destroyer must now
. sundered in twain,
But the golden bonds that bind them can new
by death be riven,
And still they shall stretch, without parting, fro
earth to the kingdom Of heaven,
And up and down the pathway Of the glitteriI
links shall flow
|. The current Of sweet communion that we've tast
4: here below.
!, So my soul, in its peaceful heaven, shall still
/. linked with thine,
|. And the gulf between earth and heaven
|. bridged by love divine
BY the ties of memories olden-by the tendr
/; that lovingly twine
/ From thy yearning heart cast upward to fasten
n; love on mine.
/; And when the waiting is over, and your soul fro
its prison of clay
D Is oosed 10 answer the summons that calls il fro
,s earth away,
y We shall meet on the glowing threshold and u
8. der the arch of pearl.
And shall there be a boy again, and you'll be
1t fair young girl