Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1884-05-16
The Lost Grave.


About ten wears ny d the Detroit Free
Press tolnmentrd on q touching lnc ia g
which occurred In that cit md which ~
wt,s seen wandering through the Ole: .dessrs
"a erayeyald On Russell street, sue had
hurled Child there half a. cen nrs 5tefo re-
Sii.1le grave; but her iin,iyirs1 love for her
enid brought her ee.ir bsc .le
ill0no .n haven list look NJ the Erave sue
found tho o yar,a eusn y an s1p had.tones
!. which fe cnce saw. but AZ score or sn ss ssa'
laYi Under the dying ioss she pnsse ., u
aons e9,shs,ss t,e mos, mo-, Il, iron witch
bore the words sour Willie. Her search y
Was frsitless. she Ind hoped that strnngeIs
& last sasg il. and she turned sadiy. asays from
the barren spo,. the t,.,rs filling on her
wrisikled check: md when ht ,Hople sr sa,ss
no her lin sympathy. she satthed Guf, IL "
y afrajd cant md hin in I'll nytn--Hcaven's
81 80 iargel " This sad incident suggested she
following linesa: .., III Is $: s:ss s343 Il
They heard her soblings in the WILLOWS
b YEN shade ls# f5HS% aft HSt8 s5&.5 ,$iE, y
4 And we'll they know her heart desired to hold
Some sweet communion with her sacfea
Ss dead. s%ty~ Il s5&
Full Atty years had passed since she had seen
AZ The SPOT Il here rested Willie $ iifeess forms
And yet her love. thro' every chang 1ng scene,
y Was as a molher's love,-uhchaheeo ANU
~ warml $s. vi 5fsfl KIT o.ajE
But she had hoped, thro' every lonely year.
THAT grave might not be sighted or forgot,
& But that some passing stranger, K1no aho
would cast Of, it sweet forget-me-not.
she: hoped some one might scatter daisy seeds
In springtime o erher Willie, > little m me
And for the Absent dead do owing deeds
When autumn leaves We're covering the
ground. +aa. i. 5[a&
Alesl she found the old yard almost gone,
For ffty years had mate cruei chhhge, y
And only here and there she saw astone,
While all the scene TO her was new ana
strange. .. ..-'s
The town had grown TO be city grand;
-, The secret charms OF the long ago mad nee
before Times hostile and empowering
And those who lived were crowding out thu
dead. : {
But tn t old mothers heart had brought ne
TO view that grave ere she had passe'
And shed a on it affections tenr, and deck
It gently o'er. with flowers bright and gray
'Mong !eaning headstones, covered Ger Wit
She sought the grave she had not seen TO
But, after walking to and fro across
r. q, tears.
All, me! that mother game acne SO far,
r With burdened anxious heart anu feature
d.: wan; %E
But from her sight mad sunk hopes last fain
: For willie's little grave was lost and gone
Kind words were spoken to her by passcrs-b,
Who saw the tears fall on her Wrlnkle
cheek;
Her tale Of woe aroused a sympathy
Too strong for any hnman tongue to speal
And while she stood beneath TIE dying tree
Once more to view tho fields 80 beak au
lone,
Htr sobs went ont on every passing hreez
AS she remembered glories that had dow
She left the scene. nor e'er returned again ;
Her heart was broken Wit h her bitter grle
She tarred thro a few Eaore years OF pain.
Then Deaths kind angel brought ner sWe
relief.
Aud as she swept thro' Heavens gates
-. gold
Into the brightness of that glorious plae
That mothers heHrt reat with JOY untold
When her own Willie ran to her embrace.
-, --Thomas J. Mucmurray