Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1878-09-18

go into valley so deep, or wildernes,
so distant, that the light would not shine
on him out of their windows. He knew
exactly where he would find her and how
she would look. for while, as Ruskin re
minds us, the clOu Is are never twice alike
the sunshine is always familiar, and it was
sunshine he saw when he looked home
ward. So. if y,u have read his notes, Yor
will remember how his heart breaks forth
into singing in all sorts of unexpected
places, as he thinks of the wife and chill
dren waiting his return; and in that way
they lived their life until they dropped into
the lap Of G"d like mellow fruit. 1t was
laid or----. :. ~ this curious, wild
work. How the woman's heart yearner
to have him home we may well imagine
and how gladly she would have given u[
some of his greatness to keep her chill
lren's father at her side. but she did moi
tell him so, if she was the woman think
she was; and so she is changed into the
same image from glory to glory. Grow.
ing aged together in the body, they are
touched now in the spirit with immortal
youth.
The little 1dyl ends without telling us
how the answer came to this cry on a wed
ding night, or whether it came ut all rs
they expected and Hoped; but that it did
come in some good, sweet way, is certain
for there is no word about u convulsion
and they have six sons They move away
when Tubit and his good wife are dead
and after that we only see the man who
lives. the neighbors believe, TO be one hun,
dred and twenty years old. 1t
makes little difference that we do not
know exactly how their life together end
ed. If they kept these safeguards aud
followed this inspiration l have tried to
touch, know it was all right.
When Oberlin was eighty years old. and
very infirm, climbing one of his native
mountains one day, he was obliged 10 lean
on the arm of n younger man, while his
wife, who was still strong, walked by her.
self. Meeting one of his parishioners, the
old man felt so awkward at his seeming
lack of galantry. that he insisted on stop.
ping and telling just how it was; she
could not lean on his arm, but she leaned
on his heart all the same; they had grown
aged together, but he had shot II little
ahead; they must not think there was any
other reason; it was rs it always had
been, only he was the weaker vessel now,
and would his friend please to say so when
he happened to mention what he had seen
So it would BE- with these lwain in that far
away eastern valley; they would keep 10,
gether, and when the arm failed, the
heart would still abide in the old, beauti-
full strength.
"And what did you see?" I said once
to friend who had been into the Lake
country, and who, on his return, told me
he had been at Wordsworth home. u"
saw the old man. he said, " walking in
the garden with his wife. They are both
quite old, and he is almost blind, but they
seemed just like sweethearts counting,
they were so tender to each other and at.
tentive." Miss Martineau tells us the
same story, with the additional particulars
of near neighbor, how the old wife would
miss her husband and trot out and find
him asleep perhaps in the sun, run for his
hat and wach over and tend him till he
awoke; and so it was that when he died
they made one grave deep enough for
both. and when she died they were one
one in the dust rs they were one in
Heaven and had been on earth over forty
years. The world came to Wordsworth
at last, but the wife at first. "Worse and
WORSE" said Jeffrey, when new poem
came out; better and BETTER said the
wife. The world might scotf, the wife be-
iuved She was no Sarah to laugh ut the
angel of the Lord. What wonder, then,
that they were still sweethearls at the age
of fourscore and ten?
So the wife of Thomas CARLYLE. the
woman with tbe brave blood of old ,John
Know conrsing tbronoh her heart unhell
hor husband ,6ronoh an wo,thers rrond
Of T bis s,renotb fender Of his weakness
and never saving "Thomas nrrv do
write 50 That neoms can understand Won"
uis viii weird words mioht nuzzle her
hrain @ @ hnt thew ware simnle S,xon to he,
be,rt and Co when she died he had craven
m her. ,omb. For fortv wears she wa,