Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1884-11-30
A Renaissance.


''But while unused came Memory with sad eyes,
Holding the folded annals OF my youth.
-Tennyson.
Folded but with no single line erased
u all inscribed thereon. How slight touch
Uniolds the record! A familiar look,
A CLINT Of sunshine Ger a waving heath,
ne babbling murmur Of an Grant brook,
Jr strain OF music from distant hill
iorne Oh pine-perihmed breeze and family hcarl
Suti ces-nay, a simple faded flower
art fully treasured for lull forty years
Four feeting decade Of q changelul lie,
ev,a!s the annals Sr.tin bygOne days
nd wakcns dormant me nories Of the past
he quaint old city, where, II so disposed
and not iasiidious a to modern modes, b.
'ou may be ,Iomicied in homes whose roofs
ave rared the tempests Of three hundred years,
md w,rship God In lanes whose spacious ais.es
.e-s clio nov the preachers warning voice
lr plei ding accents, aS they did oil yore
n days wei nigh ten centuries remote
the season. springtime OF the year and heart
The sun, declining meath the purple range
II distant noun tains, gids the steeple Yanes
With g.den gories, and Eliminates
he ph-peaked roofs and quaint old gabie-ends
With marvellous effects Of light and shade;
he boar red sandstone Of cathedral towers.
whose stately presence dominates the scene
gusbes and glows beneath his westering rays
II has blushed and gloTed deiying ume'
'eneath the sunsets OF nine hundred years.
non the rampant wall that circles round
Most ancient portion OF that antique place,
lyouih and maiden stroll, Willing the time
Nth bantering talk OF no significance
ave as the ripple on deep-howing stream
HuiIiipg the surface a suggestion makes
Of something hidden in the depths below.
md she was very fair, and be was bold,
fe; not p,esumptuous. Who would win must dare!
Upon her rounded bosom, not less pure
han they Tiny bunch o. snoNarePs a nsns
For purity's fair emblems 20 repose
She Iaughingly replies, "a oourtly speech
from source uncourtly merits Iesard;
accept these two" He gladly taking them
answers, ''I1l treasure them until die. :,
Then she Until they die, you surely mean
Iie utterance giving into nascent love,
Whose birth as yet was mystery 70 himsei,
KepIiss, ii speak but what is truly meant"
Asearchiug glance into the lovely face
Reveals look Of questioning surprise
Prom earnest blue;gTay EYES, TOO S gJh,eEF' 'eNe'
I he that which springins up in eastern skies,
Heralds the dawn and la the deepest core
VI bis stirred heart the quick seli-question rose
az n the dawn "God grant that III De 20.
4 al frsn, that hour ehangeless purpose ran
Throrob ali nh. being and controlled Its course,
weaving life sfsbrici wbaasoe'er the voof
Lore was the warp.
Six times the snovdrops thrust
Their pointed leaflets through the ransomed earthi
Bursting in blossoms White =: Lecsnt SHOWS
The snlphur-tinted primrose gayly decfed
rbe hedgerows, and the covsiiP's fragrant breath
PeTfuIned tie fields, ere interchange II VIII
Before Gods altar, blended lives and made
The full fruition Of all earthly JOY.
For fifteen years these tro together walked
lies devious path Ways whether smooth OF roagni
iii far reu,os ed FROM Deya's siivry stream
here lordIy Hudson laTes bis busy shorel
Tte whisper OF that voice all must ossy
y 4, heard, snd she lay down In peaceful sleep
s.,TiIl the day break and shadows nee avay
IN mite the afiuenoe Of the morning sun,
A Militant n,ockerv, the World vas dzrk-
rsrk. but not desolate. Duty remsined,
And duty brAyeiy done assuages grief.
FuiI many autumn suns have shown since tnenr
naturing fruifage both 10 World and hearts
Two noble sons to mans estate attained
10 yoeman's service in LIES bAttleaeid,
and as be lifts his eyes fron this dimmed page,
| he sees the loving look In blue-g11y eyes,
| Lno Fe-peruses in q daughters nc.
+ The lineaments 50 loved In early days
| n. ba, the snowuropS stiIi, and ven he knoss
4 That, when the voice calls him and ne i<ys oo1A
4 The bsayy burden Of q wasted life,
/ a kindly. loving hand with gentle care
4 viii nIace the Sithered flowers on paiseies MAT
/ In due fulfIlment Of bis yoathfui vow. ,.,.1