The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1881-06-06
Written BY fcquestl
THOUGHTS in a CEMETERY.
Ri RICHARD ELLSWORTH.

! SAT beside the iey-coyered mounds,
Beneath which lay the dust Of those who once
We're men and women, strong braye-hearted ones
And men, though not % strong, were yet as brave
And noble-hearted as the stronger ones W BIZ
And men who were not noble-hearted; men,
Within whose souls the nobier sentiments
or high and woHhy ambition never found
a resting place. And there beside them lay
The dust 81 fairer ores. whose eyes once scanned
With life and Joy, and love, and happiness;
Whose brows had once been stamped BY goddess fair
With her own image. And beside these lay
The dust Of little children, in the spring
OF life cut down by the remorseless hand
OF Death. n short, within This halloWed ground
Repose the ashes Of all classes, born
And bred in various spheres Of life: the rich.
The poor, the high. the low. the learnsdand {
Unlearned; theseas 6, the old. the gay. the sad,
The beautiful and fair, and those NOT fair;
The weak. the strong. the coward md the brave =
All mingls dust with dust.
N IL rs e5s How strange The scenes
Upon this eSfthI /. Here vice and virtue meet
And pass, ard truth by side Of talsehood walks.
The hut Of poverty. within The shade
or rich mans palace, stands. And idlehess
And industry are Oft found side by side.
The deasely peopIed city Of The dead,
+ found beside the city Of the living.
'Twase ming when al beside those mounds
The golden sun was going down. behind III
The western hills. A host 81 clouds, around
The king 81 day, assembled, like The train
or those Who mourn for ! departing friend.
A flood Of darling light STRAINED back and fen
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or every kind and hue. And waving Boughs,
And shipping birds al nature seemed topause,
And drop tear, and wonder much ~ see,
The mighty monarchs sof Ithe day 80 down.
Inverted images were seen beneath
The glass-like surface of the quiet riyet.
And hack ward borna upon the ev'ning breeze,
Reflections seemed = say, 81 y rise again."
And while at and raused thus on the dead.
woman and ! little child appeared.
The woman, leading ~ the hand the child
Approached 4 new-made mounds The lady's brow
Betok eHed the deep sadness Of her heart. S4
she al down 81 the turf beside The grave.
And IS the te4r.drops tricklcd down her cheeks
And feH upon the grass, ! saw the hearts IL i
Deep angaish, wIitIsn Plainly 9 shas iaee
And then knew she loved the one who sleeps n
Reneafh that asound Of earth. The cruel hand
Of Death had taken away the being Ehc
WaSdear 10 her as her own self. Her cheeks 81
Were not va narrowed With the lapse 81 tnae 81
Bit youthful beauty in her face YET shene.
Ia spite Of all rs sadness and its voc. Eszs Il
She kissed the LITTLE girl and smoothsd her lecis Il
OF curling hair Then rose ind went awzy. II
How notlsfrons cruel tlly decree. ID DeatkI e
Thyruthless hand spares Done. Bur III alike
Must perish BY Thy dart E
BEYOND this world
OF misery, Hope turns an anxious eye.
Beyond the gloomy shades of death, kAe SEES
The souls eternal paradise. She sees
No sorrow there, no tears, no pain, no wee s
Eternal happiness, and JOY. and peace are tsere.
Ard while the sun Of life IS sinking lon,
Beneath the deep and dark horizon 81 1<Ath, s
That sun, reflections, backward b6fnk, tel Hope
And anxious Isl ming Lores II II rise agsin.