Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1879-12-26
Three Lovers.

OF all the different periods of a mans
life, when love touches with fairy fingers
the heart Strings within his bosom, perhaps
none seems 50 filed with the pe~rfectness
of bliss and fullest realization of worldly
pleasures as that short space when the
love called boy-love holds its majestic sway
over the spirit of the youthful lover. The
image OF his ideal IS pure and and fair.
She is, TO his fond imagination the very
perfection OF the rarest of female divinity,
No calmer picture Of a more mature emo
ton has yet ingress into bis young love.
An things concerning her, the one bright
particular of his alteration are perfect.
She is all in all to him, and the world and
all things connected are full of light and
joy. He will pen verse after verse in her
identification, and wish to die at the feet
of his idol, The burning desire within
him is TO do some great and glorious deed
whereby he will win the name Of hero, and
thus prove to his darling the worthiness of
his affection. This period is brief, how
ey9r, for time presses on his youthful
hands. There are worlds for him to con-
qucr, trials 10 pass through, and tears per-
haps to shed. As he passes through the
daily routine of ife's pleasures and trout
bles, as general thing, his memory for
the old love of his boyhood's days
COWS fainter and fainter, and finally fades
away into the past. Astrange new feeling
takes possession Of his heart. he has ia
ken a last farewell ofhis teens. He feels
that he is now a man. A love slowly but
surely ddaws its binding meshes abort his.
heart. Perhaps he is not so quickly bouud
perhaps he considers and pauses before he
takes the final plunge. The object Of his
alteration this time may not be SO fair as
was the pretty one Of his former affection.
Strange tits, neearly I'll the,oved ones ola
boys alteration were pretty. Now, when
years of consideration have passed and
time has brought experience, other quail
lies then those Of beauty alone are held up
fol inspection. Gradually the circle draws
10 a point; now all the world is taught 10
him without the object of his love. His
mind is fully resigned, and the result OF all
his dreamings all his daily conclusions. per-
fectly justify his possessing the desired
queen Of heart. The old story is told again
perhaps 10 him, crhe, it was never told in
sweetcr terms. Wellit is that they think
SO, tor all the more they are assured of
peace and perfect happine,s in the lutuIe.
llCl pass hdlu III manu- uOHn inc ldillS VI
life; each gathers for the other the flowers
of JOY. Alike they share the pleasures and
sweets Of life anc both weep together the
tears of sorrow when woe places its hands
upon them. The pleasures which come to
them brighten their lives alike; the trials
endear them one 10 the other, for the sake
OF their mutual cOndolemcnt.
Near the end oflile's pathway they draw
hand in hand. This is their period Of cx-
istance when all the sweetness and purity of
true and perfect love reigns supreme.
When age brings wrinkles upon the once
smooth brow, and sucaks of silver are seen
among the locks Of hair, and footsteps grow
iallerinS, when the calmness Of peaceful
association b. the side Of the home hearth
stone fills the heart with bliss indeed.
PeIkaps the magic chain oil circumstances
has bound together two hearts from youth
10 old age. All. what a heaven is theirs to
look back through the long lapse Of time
10 review the splcndors Of their mutual love
The cmbcrs of lie bum family on the
hearth. The life which has been, has been
fuithlul in preparing them for the fife To-
conc. Old age, with all the tender tokens
offs love er Dyed by the g~ray-haired cou-
pie. j, the very Eiii.lm,nto of iie's uuesta a.
sociuioAs.