The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1885-10-17

portal
Beyond the pulsing avenrec of care;
God bless thee, dear; AMI guide thee wher
immortal
Youth waits thy coming on the goIde
stairs.
Ana lastly, dear love, truth, my kiss
!. Gods blessing,
All these enwOven in my simple son
May make the dreary days between IL
pressing
Seem brighter and less long,
| QUESTIONED AND ANSWERED.
What is there in thy depths, O sea,
mat, cause she dwells thy waves beside.
Would make her love grow less for me
When once she swore it would abide
1t cannot be; her heart must still
Burn with the flame my words once lit,
And l shall find her strong in will
| 10 seek the MOSES where | sit.
1t cannot be that these few days
Since we have lived in clirnes apart
Have half unweft the holy maze
| That wound and bound us heart to heart.
Tell me, o sea. what can it be
Makes her last words grow chill and few
Has hatred by vile magcry
Shed DER her soul its blighting dewo
can t believe that she would bark
To rhymes of other Trobadors
And leave Inc stumbling through the dark
| Without her to the future shores,
OF that glad hope we one time had
Serenely built around our lives:
future beaming, rich, and glad
With all the joy that faith revives.
1t will not last, it canno. be,
For long or short | know full well
She Will not lose her love for me,
And, yet, o sea, pray you tell
| What subtle power, inhuman, weird,
| Has turned her heart so icy cold
And for the passing moment seered
The love our spirits used to hold?
''She has not lost, o Bard, nor will
| Ere lose for you her angel share
| Of love, but, Sappho like, is still
| More wholly your, and still more fair.
"lo" only doubt, her faith is strong,
y woman she, you only man;
| Her love will live while yours for long
Has In, a. 4, i
Thanks, sea! thought it so, and trust
Her words and yours forevermore,
And still shall trust when out of dust
Ny soul stands painting at the door.
| Of that high palace built of light
From glimmers in pure infants eyes,
When time stands still before the night
That wells the dawn OF Paradise.
When Benny left me l devoted an
hour of the evening to quiet consid-
Grafton Of Phineas and his possibilities,
of Phineas and his impossibilities, and
OF Phlneas and the connection his love
affair would have with both of the
above. For aforementioned reasons
gave the question up for that night
and determined to take it into serious
consideration at another time when
had learned more in reference to the
woman who had SO impressed him. ]
have found out all since then, and
have found out that it is pest to let
your faith abide in such men IS Phin-
cas- Owens without questioning mot
ives or events. Stirred as his nature
was beginning to be with the inward
turbulency of a great grief,-a delicate
blossom of sister dropped and faded
and fell from the stem before he
reached her bedside,-the growth that
was to lift him above the tasks he fol-
lowedsthe yearrings of spirit pecul-
iarly affectionate and sympathetic, l dc
not wonder the girl grew large and
lovely and priceless in his eyes as she
began to understand and answer hin,
more clearly each day that Others
were losing knowledge of his inward
part.
1t is characteristic of authors, (no
all-perfect masters know how tc
avoid such things), to indulge in un
limited vagueries when they approach
that period in the life of the characte
they are portraying which is enrobec
in mystery and uncertainty by the
many high and awful changes that take
place in a heroic nature during its evo
lutions. But, Benny does not like sucl
vagueries, nor do think it proper TO
Phineas Ovens memorial, and | vii
not attempt to analyze his inward lit,
at that time, when so hard to fathom
There were motives, depending upol
the future for development, sleepin.
in his brain at the time, | know. Hi
love was of that mutually understood
sort that never, generally, develops an,
further than peculiar regard, so ex
allied as to blot matrimony from it
record and form agreements in simple
faith to walk in paths individuall
chosen, more like brothers and sister
than lover and loved.
Benny and | grew warmer in ou
attachment when the weeks ant
months kept Phineas away, and W
watched earnestly and necessarily tn
phases of his life with all its hopefr
surroundings and with HIM maxim
those surroundings subjective to tn
wants of nature such as his was whe
the first full convictions like the daw
of a grand new day, were breakin
upon him /; bringing forth in the light &c
his arrangement and profit the round
of the long strong ladder up which h
might climb to perfection and com
pleteness, visible example to his fel
lows who might follow, and a large
soul pleader to the source from whenc
his own blessings came for an equ,