West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-01

from their eyes; and .there shall bt
no more death, neither sorrow, mol
crying, neither sslh1aall shall there he snJ
more pain; for former Thugs arr
passed away, iIiW ID 'pT1so'Tet
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!, But, dear one, this is watching
and weeping too long The light o1
the, stars grows dim, and lnoa mo
ment it will be morning. Take some
repose now.. Your other hall, whose
absence--so-afiiicts-you, and whom
you seeRinsvaininy y9ar empty rooms
and in your widows couch, will talk
to you in your dreams. 80 - sal
,"Oh! how much I had to say! and
how little, while alive, did | say! Al
the first word, God took me away
from yen. | had hardly time enough
to say: I LOVE! To pour out my
heart to you require eternity.
"A sweet concert, sanctifying
earth, had commenced between US
OF our double heart the celestial
harmonist had just made divine
instrument; he was playing the pre-
lude. II the string has snapped, il
death, which seems to us such q
shrieking discord, has hushed this
Tyre. do not think, my love, that tits
hushed forever, nor that God has
thrown it aside. No, the hymn is
suspended, to be resumed in a more
sonorous sphere, in sovereign liber
ty, enfranchised from this lower
world. a 49,, 9d
"You know, not Il morsel, not an
atom of the body in which my SOU
was clothed, is lost. Of the elements
which constituted it, each one viii
surely find its fellow, and return tt
it's affinities. How much more then
should the soul itself, the harmonic
power which constituted the unity
of the body,surviye and last! 1t does
survive, but as one. Unity is its
nature. 1t remains, and smore and
more what it was, centre Of attrac
ton. All that reyolved about 1t ir
its first life, by the analogies of ma
ture, and the assimilation of love
irresistibly returns to it. / am in
complete, and await you; the need
of union that my soul carried away
with it, makes it ever aspire towards
the possession of its dearest half
which your world still keeps from it
at had to be thus. Recall to your
mind our torments of love-the eff
fort, always made but never satisfied
to interchange our souls-.the impo
tence of pleasure even, the trace o.
melancholy in urhappiness. Words
looks, and the most ardent trans
ports, still left barrier between us
What it was we knew not. The
heart always said: "By and by
and "That is not it." Its natura
regret was that, itself proceeding
from light, being The sole and exclu
sive love of the beloved object, il
should so soon be blinded and lef)
in utter darkness, that in this pro
found obscuring personality should
disappear and be swallowed up; thai
in her it no longer knew at that mo
ment, it was she. - Hence
came sadness, and doubt and the
bitterness of saying "What is this
thing, always incomplete and uncer
tain, which only attains its desire
by undefning it, by losing all idea
of it?-In this impulse of soul te
soul, all has vanished; and cannot
tell whether the union was q union
or momentary death, in a fash o
pleasure. . .-.v,i E
$50 that with these burning trans
ports an unexpected third was min
'gled-the idea Of death. Not fright
full, but melancholy, and not withou
certain charm. Death said, 'Feal
not, but hope. A false death has
made you feel that you will progres:
but little here below. 1t is else
where, it is by me and through my
deliverance that, ascending the lad
der of luminous worlds, yourselves
participating in the freedom Of light
you may penetrate each other, and
without losing for a moment the
clearness of love, blend together il
one emanation of lightw
1--WE will ascend thus. But b,
what means, and at what cost? Seek
the simplest means, anil it will b.
that of God. For, though human
art gropes its way by complicated
and painful circuits, that of Got
goes on the straight road, quickl,
and easily. Mentally, as physically
like seeks like, and instinctively
they come together. Otherwise inf
mite strength would be lost in dis
persion. This machine of the uni
verse-so yisibly harmonic in palpa
| BILE things, would be in things invis
ible Just the opposite-a discord
ance, far beneath the failures Of tn
most unskilful workmen. :
..Did we on earth obtain an as
similation and a perfect resemblance
| Our essays thereto were vain. Th'
blindness of my desire, the abandon
mani of vonr sacrifice. bringing III