Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1881-05-21
For the INDEPENDENT.
In mOrianl.
Mrs VIRGINIA E. BELL.
For Hon. JosEPH Y BELL.

Your sunlight is hidden in darkness,
Your smile is enveloped in gloom,
Your hopes of the Present and Future
Are locked in the walls of tomb.
Only Memory comes at the bidding
And brings all the bliss of the Past,
AS she's painting those beautiful pictures
Whose colors were too bright to last.
As star on your life she had risen
And flooded your pathway with light,
She has answered the ends of creation
And has left you mid sorrow and night.
You will miss her, and wonder how
heaven
Could take her from children and you
But crown was awaiting q wearer,
The reward of the humble and true.
Your home will be lonely without her,
Deep sadness will reig n everywhere;
All nature will droop as if mourning,
Strange whispers be heard in the air.
Her presence will follow your footsteps,
Her image appear in your dreams;
She is dead and is buried-yet h0eth
How strange TO all mortals this seems.
The master who gave her has taken,
one cannot return to you more;
That journey is yours in the Failure,
You may meet on that far-away shore.
Let the aim of your life be to join her,
Like her win the crown OF the BEST
Your duty yet calls you to battle
But she is at peace and at rest
Oh.
WASHINGTON, D. c., May l6, 1881.
In this county, near Little George
town, on the 18th inst, LULA v,
youngest daughter of George T. and
Elizabeth Slyer, after an illness of
about four weeks, aged years and
6 months.
Lula had entwined herself in the
tenderest affections of her parents.
How hard it is to give up the little
lamb of the household in the joyous
spring-time. But it was Jesus, the
Good Shepherd, who called her from
the fold on earth to the fold above.
to walk amid the trees Of the Para
disc of God, and to drink Of the river
of the water of life, never to know
pain or sorrow or weep again. Sor-
rowing patents, think Of your child
among the glorifisd throng land bend
ing in alteration to the King OF
Kings. Perhaps she may sometimes
hover around your dwelling, watch
ing your tears. And being Gods
children, when you approach the por-
tails of heaven, there she will stand
to greet you and usher you in the
presence chamber Of God and lead
you lovingly to the Good Shephesd
who called your lamb before you to
lead you to your heavenly home.
sob this is blest relief
My fainting heart it CHI GERS
1t cools my burning grief,
And sweetens all my tears;
These, eyes shall see my darling then,
Nor shed parting tear again.
The reaper death was commissioned by
Him who doeth all things well.
death gazed at the flower with tear
He kissed is is dropping leaves;
1t was for the Lord of Paradise,
He bound it in his sheaves." G..
On the 18th instant, near Martins
burg, GEORGE w. DAILY, aged %
years, 4 months and 2 days.
How short and uncertain an abode
on earth is Less than two weeks
previous he was perfectly we'll and
was cut down, so soon, just in the
beginning OF his manhood. We trust
he has entered the beautiful land
where sickness and death are I'M
known. May the God of all grace
comfort the sorrowing friends, and
sanctify to them their deep distress.