Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1883-02-23

hand, and wrote down the verses She
murmu-ed in my car-idie foolish
rhymes. (which. after they were writ.
ten, hiu away In my bosom. ONT Of
sight of the wise old books and the
| gay, knocking flames, so that nj last
was fain to cry desparingly. Alas !
| Wisdom Is not for me, she looks dusty
and old and lifeless. and IL would
/ live.
Thou shalt live,n said Sorrow. "bnt
thou must have courage =
II fear nothing answered, sand
/ would see life.p
sorrow led me to dying bed--the
death-bed of a lad who was genius.
His sufierings had reached pitch be-
yond what man could endure, and
he was only lad; and vet Sorrow
never left him; but Faith was there,
too, mt his bedside. and strengthened
and upheld him. Two years he lived
and suffered, and when he died !
asked of Sorrow: Where is Truth
and thou hast not showed me Life, but
Suffering and Death
But sorrow gave no answer, and led
me silently from one dying bed to
another, and ! wept for pity of the suf-
iering, she desolation j saw on every
side around me. until my eyes Were
dim and my heart ached, and ex-
claimed in my despair:
LET me die ~
"What?' replied sorrow: thou
die? Where is the strength thou didst
boast OF so proudly? Thou canst not
die, for thy hast not yet begun TO live.
Thou hast not yet loved
AS sorrow spoke she laid her hand
! h.u nj l,i
into it with shouting and
singing. And the forest where
we We're saw and heard
him coming, and the trees rustled and
whispered among one another at his
approach. Then again / wrote the
| foolish idle rhymes | had learned of
1 fancy. But love was not Truth, and
Sorrows hand pressed heavily and yet
/ more heavily on my arm; my steps
grew weak and lettering, and my head
was bowed TO the ground. / asked
! Sorrow if in labor truth might not
dwell. But sorrow raised my bent
down head, and behold youth stood
| before me, fair and smiling as the
/ dawn.
There is thy husband,n said she,
wilt thou love him thy whole life
| long and follow him upon the way
which he will lead thee 1t is rough
| and stony, and leads down into deep,
| dark rayines, and up over high, .-teep
mountains. Art thou willing to walk
| itan
And | said; II am"
SO Sorrow brought me to wedlock
and to motherhood, and bound labor
securely upon my shoulders. And we
wandered onward, ana met many an
adversary on our oath, but | was not
dismayed, for was | not wife, a moth
er? But years went on and my child
died. | closed its dear eyes. | saw
/ the 'cot1in-lid fastened down over Its
golden head, and, turning to Sorrow
babe her lead be forward on the way
| to Truth. Then sorrow put a pen in
my hand and snid: Write and en-
quire about her. And | wrote and
inquired after Truth. And as l wrote
found myself growing famous, but
truth came not at my call. But instead
of death came Sorrow, and raising me
from my sick bed, ook me, feeble as
was, upon IA journey. AS we journeyet
suddenly we felt the earth shake ant
tremble under our feet, and war stood
in the path before us. His breath wa
the thunder, his eye the fire, his hanc
the lightning, and the mantel which
fluttered from his broad shoulder swep
the heavens and turned day to night
And stopped to nurse the wounded
and bleeding ones whom he had lief
on the path behind him. But Truth
she | sought seemed no nearer.
"Ah, Truth, Truth ! sighed, "mN
youth is gone in seeking thee, and still
thou fleest from me-"
Il \ h..I IL inn
Sorrow said: Before thee stand
Truth" and raising my heavy eyes
saw far OH in the path before me lit
tie child standing, with friendly smil
ing eyes. us that child TRUTH"
asked, astonished.
And Sorrow nodded and asked: "An,
is she not very fair"
While sorrow was speaking the Chile
came nearer, and as she advanced sh'
grew taller and larger, until a shap,
stood before me holding in one hanC
the earth, in the other the heavens
Look down now into thy heart, ant
thou wilt find Truth there
And | looked, and behold, Trutl
,, was there. Then / cried:
, Wherefore have | sought and striv
en- to see Truth after ALL and behold
she was always near me but /, blind
knew ii not Now / will die.p
"Thou wilt live"
And / could see nothing now for thu
tears which dimmed my eyes. But
Sorrow held my hand tightly in her
and led nae on and ever on.