The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-09-16
Our Young People
MADE UP FROM THE BEST CLIPPINGS
Achild,s Dream Of a Star.

panlOn' 1leSe TWO uSeu W WOuOS
all day long. They wondered a
the beauty of the flowers; they won
dered at the height and blueness o
the sky; they wondered at tn
depth of the bright water; the,
wondered at the goodness and pow
er of God, who made the Lowell,
world.
They used to to say to one anOth
sometimes, suppose all the chill
dren on earth We're to die, woult
the flowers and the water and tn
sky be sorry? For" said they
"the buds are the children of tn
flowers, and the little playful
streams that gambol down the hill
side are the children of the waters
and the smallest bright specks
playing at hide and seek in the SIX,
all night, must surely be the chill
dren of the stars; and they would
all be grieved to see their play
mates, the children of men, NJ
more"
There was one clear star tina
used to come out in the sky befor,
the rest, near the church spire anC
over the graves. 1t was large anC
more beautiful, they thought, thar
all the others, and every night they
watched for it, standing hand il
hand at the window. Whoever saw
it first cried out: Il see the star
And often they cried out both to
gether, knowing so well when. i
would rise, and where. So they
grew to be such friends with it thai
before lying down in their beds
they looked out once again to BID
it goodnight, and when they where
turning round to sleep they would
say: God bless the star"
But while she was still very
young oh, very, very young
the sister dropped, and came to be
so weak that she could no longer
stand in the window at night; and
then the child looked sadly out by
himself, and when he saw the star
turned round to the patient, pale
face on the bed: 81 see the STAR
then q smile would come upon his
face and little weak voice used to
say: "God bless my brother and
the star ~
And so the time came, all too
soon, when the child looked out
alone, and when there was no face
on the bed; and when there was a
little grave among the graves not
there before, and when the stars
made long rays down towards him
as he saw it through his tears.
Now these rays were so bright
and they seemed to make such d
beautiful shining way from earth
to heaven, that when the child
went to his solitary bed, he dream
ed about the star, and dreamed
that lying where he was, he saw a
train Of people taken up that shin
ing road by angels. And the star
opening showed him a great world
of light, where many more such an
gels waited to receive them.
All these angels who were wait
ing turned their beaming eyes up
on the people who were carried up
into the star, and some came out
from the long rows in which they
stood, and fell upon the peoples
necks, and kissed them tenderly,
and went away with them down
avenues of light, and were so happy
in their company, that lying in the
bed he wept for jov.
But there were many angels who
did not go with them, and among
them one he knew.
His sisters angels fingered near
the entrance of the star and said to
the leader among those who had
brought the people hither:
els my brother Gomez
And lie said "No."
Then she turning hopefully away
when the child stretched out his
arms and SAID, "Oh, sister, l am
herel Take mew And then she
turned her beaming eyes upon him,
and it was night; and the star was
shining into his room, making long
rays down towards him as he saw it
through his tears.
From that hour forth the child
looked out upon the star as on the
home he was to go to, when |
histlme should come, and he thought |
ne did not belong to the earth
alone, but to the star too, because of
his sisters angel gone before.
There was baby born to be a,
brother to the child, and while he |
was so little that he had never yet |
spoken a word he stretched his tt
ny form out on the bed and |
lied.
Again the child dreamed of the |
opened star and the company of |
angels, and the train of people and |
Ill the rows OF angels, with their
)eaming eyes all turned upon those
peoples faces.
Said his sisters's angel to the
eader:
as my brother here?"
And he said:
''Not that one, but another"
And when the child saw his broth
RS angel in her arms, he cried:
30, sister, am here? Take
neT
And she turned and smiled up
IN him, and the star was shin
ng.
He grew to be young man, and
vas busy at his book, when an old
ervant came to him and said:
Thy mother is no more. l
,ring her blessing on her darling
'on."
Again at night he saw the star,
md all that former company.
laid his sisters angel to the lead
II:
as my brother Gomez
l.