San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1886-07-30
CHAPTER XIII.


There's rosemary, that's for re mCmbrance,
and there is pansicS, that's for thoughts.
Hamlet.
Lay out your festive garments, we who are
wont TO wear them; spread them out; ay,
gaze upon them lovingly, for after tonight
they will not be so fresh again. The long,
expected, much-wished for night has come
and that nothing may be wanting to its joys,
she too has put on her trailing garments
fringed with light" and is as beautiful as
ever midsummer night need be.
Gay hearts are gayer than ever tonight;
maidens' cheeks are flushing and their hearts
are thrObbing as with the help of anxious
mammals and tired maids they are arraying
themselves in what seems gOOdly TO their
eyes.
But at the parsonage one little room Is
dark and unlighted-a little room against
whose window the sweet vines Chamber and
lay their heads so lovingly together, through
which the soft night airs watt their gentle
kIsses-and here in his leathern chair an old
man sits alone; an old man on whose head
time has laid his frOsty-tinger, but not hardly
has he dealt with him, for the sorrows which
have been his share, have but sOftened the
rugged lines and left a tender impress about
the once stern mouth. And though the fire
and sparkle have long since died from the
eyes, there has come instead kindly flame,
and so he sits there in the twilight with his
book upon his lap and his eyes fixed on one
bright star above his head.
lie has learned to look for that star for ii
comes every night above his study window,
and, shining down upon him, seems to say:
"Be of good cheer, for will not leave thee
comfortless." And tonight he wants COM
g., al l., u a
with the past In general, when he has leisure
to think, his mind goes forward jOyfully with
glad thoughts of that fair city which all his
life through he has been struggling and
striving to reach; that eternal city with its
gates of pearl at which he will lay down the
burdens he has carried for many a weary day
and enter into everlasting bliss. But to-
night his mind has travelled back to the older
days, and his thoughts are sadder far than
glad. And the star shines brighter still and
sends its soft rays of comfort into his heart
But some one has broken upon his revery
now, for the door opens, glad step comes
towards him, and two white hands are laid
on his.
81 have come to see you, DOnie," cries the
glad voice. For you to admire and see if /
am all right Put on your Spcctaclcs and see
If am your own little Nelly or a line young
woman you never saw before"
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beauty psle. ana the olu man uaLzleu py
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star and the star feels its duty done. And so
he turns to look at her, she, who is the apple
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