The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1879-02-14

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~ Thought you would come this morning
ma'an. Yes. Edith az last has gone:
Io-morrows = week, aye. Just g. the sun
Went With the night The Wear saws. where
But she's hit ! darkness behind her here
wish she had taken away.
She T. no longer with us. but we seem 70 be
always with her,
In the lonely bed where we laid her last. and
can't get her 10 speak or stir.
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Yes, I'm az work: Ills time was. should
have begun before;
hut this Il the room where she lay 80 still,e
they carried her past the door.
Thought l never could let her go where IL
seems 80 lonely Of nights;
But now am scrubbing and busting down.
and setting the place 20 rights
All have kept are the flowers there. the last
suppose / must throw them away. she
looked much fairer when she was dead.
III.
Thank You for thinking Of her so much.
Kind thought is the truest friend
wish you had seen how pleased she was
with the peaches you used 70 send.
She tired Of them too ere the end, 50 she did
with al we tried;
But she liked to look az them all the same. so
set them down by her side
Their bloom and the flush upon her check
were alike, used 10 say;
Both were so smooth. and loft, and round
and both have faded away.
IL never could tell you how kind too. were
the ladies up at the hall:
Every noon, fair or wet, one OF them used
10 call.
Worry and work seems ours. but yours pleas
ant and easy days.
And when AZ goes smooth. the rich and poor
have different lives and ways.
Sorrow and death bring men more close, tits
Joy that puts ne apart;
It's a comfort a. think, though we've severed
so, we're all Of Us one at heart
"she never wished 20 be smart and rich. as
80 many IN these days do,
Nor cared 70 20 ia on market days 70 stare at
the gay and new.
She iiked.o remain at home and pluck the
white violets down in the wood
She said 70 her sisters before she died, s'Tis so
easy TO be- good
She must have found i 50, think. ana that
God deemed it needless to leave her here so
took her up to the sky
" The Vicar says that he knows she Is there,
and surely she ought 20 be;
But though ! repeat the words. It's hard TO
believe what one does not see.
they DID not want me to 20 70 the grave, but
cooid not have kept away,
Ana whatever 90 can only see a coffin and
Yes. / know its wrong 70 keep lingering
there. and wicked and weak 70 fret:
And that's why I'm hard az work again, for il 4
helps one to forget.
VII.
The young ones don't seem TO take 70 work
as their mothers and fathers did.
We never were asked II we liked or no, but
had 10 obey when bid
There's Bessie won't swill the dairy now, nor
Richard call home the cows,
And all of them cry, How can you, mothers
when carry the wash 20 the sows
Edith would drudge. for always Death the
hearth OF the nelpfnlest robs.
But she WAS 30 pretty could not bear 20 set
her on dirty Jobs
VIII
= don't know how it'll be with them when
sorrow and loss are theirs,
For IL isn't likely that they'll escape their
pack Of worfits and cares.
They say it's an age Of progress this, and
sight Of things improves.
But sickness and age. and bereavement seem
20 work In the same old grooves.
fine they may grow, and that, hut Death as
liet take the moth az the grub.
when their dear ones die. suspect they'll
wish they'd door of their own 70 scrub.
--fusfin Dcbson, Contemporary Reriar.