Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-10-18
A CIRCUMSTANCE IN LIFE.

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A CIRCUMSTANCE IN LIFE.
Written fir the SEHddy Register.
Two children In two neighbor villages
Playing mad pTankS along the healthy leaS
Two strangers meeting at y festival;
Two lovers whispering by an orchard wall;
Two lives bound fast In one with golden ease
Two graves grass-grcen beside gray church tower
Wash d with still rains and dasy-fashioned;
Two children in one hamlet born and we'd
50 runs the round Of life from hour TO hour.
-Tenuyson.
The night is cold and dark and silent
The fire within its Pickering light costs
quaint grotesoue shadows on the wall. 1t
ia the hour for meditation. The hour when
fairies whisper and recall the past. Draw
your chair closer to the fire, close your
weary eyes and listen to the murmuriDgs OF
memory. You are old, the silver hairs OF
age are upon your head What chords OF
life does the airy white.wirged goddess
thrill. Love, you ore aged yet your heart is
still warm. You were once young. Then
love we 20 dancing back to childhood.
Here you are upon your mothers knee
How tebderly she strokes those sunny curls
as che points you 10 the way of life, and
tells you the precepts of true existence
What failure she dreams for you. She
has you among the clouds OF fame and i'm
mortality. That mother has long rested
in the grave. All, how much of her good
advice have you forgotten How often
has an angelic tear fallen Tor you in
your weakness Age steals along You
have your first pantsloons. You are q
MAD. Happy boy. Rsdient and cheerful
you start 10 school. You are now on the
oath of life. The first step. You oemem-
Der the little curly headed girl, with blue
eyes. How strange you feel when you see
her. You blush when you speak to her.
you goose you. How tender were her
eancTs when she found those large red
apples in her desk. You knew you putth'u
there. RoS proud you were when you
would haul her home on your sled You
pulled her many a flower. You talked
of what you would do when you were q
man. How inefsby happy you were
when you both sit upon the grass and
eat Of the same ginger cake, bite about.
You fel; then that life would be blank
without her. You even made the tender
VOWS that older people make. They moved
away. Your eyes and hers we're vet with
tears. Yol little fools. You felt that life
had lost lis sunshine. She too. You
parted.
Now you ere at school. DO you remem'
Der that terrible srithmetic2 The jokes
you played upon the ptor old MASTER
That f ght you had with Tom Green on the
school ground2 How muddy you were,
and how proud (false pride) when they
said You licked" him2 You would not
fight Tom now. Your school days end.
You remember when school closed. How
you got up before the seemingly unending
multitude. How sGfi you sat, and how
confused. That speech-sre you not half
ashamed Of it now2 What an orator you
thoughts yourself as you tslktd Of Greece
and Rome. Poor, ihteadbare Greece and
Rome. You remember the girl who warm.
ly congratulated you at the cloae oil the ex-
ercises. She had dark hair You loved
her. You dreamed Of her. How long
you kept that boquet she gave you. You
read the oher day OF her death, the wife Of
another man Poor woman. You felt
sad, and your paper dropped TO the floor.
You lived your school days over egain, and
resatcered The blossoms that had withered
along the way.
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Now all is merry. The gay party is in
progress Why do you gaze so rudy at
the handsome young lady sitting across
the way? Her nsme. Ella. All! the
sane chubby, yellow haired girl with whom
you used to play in childhood. An intro
duction You talk; you bo:h live your
childhood again. Why is it you part with
with such peculiar feeling in your breast
You are associpting your little playmate
with your friend. HOY delicious would
kiss from those lips s. EN- now. You are in
love and you make the same fool Of your
self that We all make OF ourselves at times
Tender, foolish missives; long evenings
wasted 10 afrcaona,e talk Will you ever
forget the q1ie. conversations by the OF
cbard well, With her fair hand in yo1rs3
The presents sou gave. tie ridfs you have
taken-all come bst X nos At last that
vow ia passed that makes us one The
wedding; dazzling lights; fair circle.
You are happy. You are fool.
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You then settled down 10 married life.
You worked hard from sally to late. How
pleasant to return 10 The evening and find
that sweet face in the door~sy waiting for
your return. You wire happy then. A
home you had ahere no discord entered;
one calm spot in the wn,li OF turmoil and
trouble, With an argel Of p ace IS its quar-
dian. You Ienemb T. too. when one
morning you stooied AID kissed her pale,
white face, and found that red-faced
midget, your hei:esa, by htr side. bow
dear that pale, week woman seemed to
you. Yeas followed Cd and your daughter
grew tsll and fair THIN comes that
black, dark spat IN Jour i'e; wien your
little playmate OF !onT y9u;b, your sweet
heart Of YOUR hf er If, yaHF wife now
passed from sou foftV r. You saw her
fading. SaE the rosa leave her cheeks
and her steps gFow laDguid You did not
realize fully the s'ruke which would follow.
You tried 70 preytn' il; bot avails human
efforts against fats? The room visa kark.
ensd. The attendants pslked about silent
ly spd spoke only 10 Whisper. Hsw snx-
iously yog waited the report OF the old
gray haired doctor How anxiously you
watched that pale face az it ley on
the white pillow Gov her heavy breath
ings chilled tie pubs OF your soul.
The long drssry gri-f laden nights Of
watching How tie food gates oil sorrow