Feliciana sentinel. [volume] (St. Francisville, La.) 1877-1892, 1884-05-10
Felicjana Sentinel.
0UZsPOKEN and DEMOCRATIC.
OFFICIAL J0UlIAL OF WEs9 PELlcIAHA
|ficial Journal of the Town of Bavou Sara
Official Journal of the School Board.
HUNTER {, ifASZsE, &a@ si g!uu;st!w.
Saturday May 10, 1884
1HE VALLEY or fIAlS,

TEE VALLEY OF fIAlS.
From "axaA1Dmz," .o,rAsu. m vx,a1.
If climb to the mountain Of giadnees,
Aud bask in the sunshine Of bliss,
II n lheeS lg AL sorrow and sadness,
Forcete-ns the good that I miss,
look out from my uplands o; being
Across the broad reach of the year
grow tender'y sober at seeing
The shadowy Valley of Tears.
It is neve~ quite lost to my vision,
Though often beyond it see
The green slopes Of the summit's slysian
That wait With their blessings for me;
And though often long for ths f-eedom
That youder eternalIy reigns
I remember that each has his Edom
Before the glad Canaan he gains.
When my heart with tumultuous tn. obbing
Takes up the sad burdens Of men,
go down amid signing and sobbing,
And walk tie m valley again.
A sober, sepu1chrai procession
We make as we journey along,
With a grief for our only possession,
A funeral dirge for our song.
There are willows above US low bending,
That weep with US over our woe;
And the mist of the mountain descending,
Bedews all the way as We 60.
In the dark Of our dubious grievina
We walk as if stars had gone ont,
And our souls we're grown sick Of believing
The MORROW were more than doubt.
There are hearts with their hunger pathetic
That walk in the Valley of Tears;
There are souls, in their sadness, ascetic,
That inger and grieve through the years.
There are loves that come silently hither
To seek for some treasure of cost,
And that noun, as q BARN for its mother,
The wonderful love that is lost.
There are many who wait and who wander
Within the dim valley with me,
And who yearn for the emountain-topsy yonder
The sunlight and gladness to see;
But stranger look in their faces
And strangers they look into mine;
And as strangers We group for the places
Where sunlight and 9ladness may shine.
For who walks in the valley 80 lonely
Goes there in his sorrow alone;
And who gives friendly greeting gives only
For bread to the hungry q stone.
They may touch US whose yesterday tender
Made loving and living supreme;
Bot our grieving refuses surrender,
And friendship was only dream.
I am far up the mountains OF being;
The mists Of the morning below
In their beauty shut out from my seeing
The valley where soon must 60:
But know, though the sun Of my hoping
May shine with gladness that cheers,
That 1 soon shall be YEARLY grouping
My way in the Valley of Tears.
You may smile on the submits of glatlness
Who never have we t at their base;
But in time with the garment of sadness
You closely will cover your face;
And unknown of the many who wander,
Unknowing, as they are unknown.
You shall grope from the radiance yonder,
Across the dark valley, alone.
Amid pitt nj sobbing and singing,
Where willows and expresses bend;
You shall walk where the shadows are lying,
And see not siyn Of the end;
You shall know, by the twilight unbroken
When morn on the mountain appears,
You have come, Without warning or token,
At length to the Valley of Tears.