West Virginia Democrat. [volume] (Charles Town, W. Va.) 1885-1890, 1888-06-01
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Gather up this strength and these
htlIoughtss which were myselEoT Taken
into, your heart and brooded oyer by
your love, they will be to you as a
new impression, got from the world
or spirits. stS 7Hs'h 100 sr' ItA !
Insf slfefat seeing you suffer. Bot
YOU must not recoyerosi Sucha post,
lumops assimilation as-oprs is only
effected by pain, bleeding wound.
This wound viii swallow up my soul
and fusion thus effected, you can no
blonger remain there An Irresistible
attraction taking You some morning,
there where your heart is, not, will
bring you. like an arrow, here W here
it is, where am. 1t will be, no more
Idifficult than It is for a spring, which
has been kept down by 'ai'heayy
weight, the weight p removed. to re-
bound and leap up again, returning
to it's nature. Now, I am your na-
ture and your natural life; the OBJ
stacle removed. you return to me.ni
l,e"This obstacle is theb difference
which is still between Ius.. ssOh! !
implore you, become myself, and You
will be mine entirely! 800. -'N
Sorrow is all your present exist
ence. / would have you filled with
an active ,sorrow.i Do not remain
seated at that cold marble esepulchre.
Wear a great affection, really worthy
Of me, with noble tears, which should
enlarge all hearts. dos
II see those poor creatures, my
friends, distracted. not feeling my
spirit among them. / see the last
flock running wildly away, az If l
were really in the tomb. Your work
be it not to onpermit them to despair
or forget. q Yours the duty to say:
He still ligesp al 9di b9qisa .,
IF you affirm this, they witt be-
lieve it. Ny house which was their
house, will call them back and main
htain their fraternity. In their un.
certainties, and painful fuctuations,.
| they will wish to see my hearth
again, to warm themselves, by its
fire; that fire burns in you.,, :.
There you will preserve my soul,
and perhaps extend its dominion.
Through you it will vegetate and
put, forth new roots. Morethan one
whom / could ,not,gain, oyerpin the
roughness of my masculine manners,
may come to me when he finds me
under the touching figure of wo-
man, beautiful in her sorrow and in
her hope. 10 aimltg4 nl
"This circle of friendships, which
was my glory, has in you its unity,
the fame which will prolong my life
to it. Keep this loved group to-
gether; maintain among them SO
thoroughly my thought, that, ,assim7
Hated to me, may see you, some day
all arriving together in my new So
journ-that I may see You again as
formally, when young andso charm
ing, as you entered the room and
cut short my work, saying with your
dawnlike smile: BE joyful, for
here are your friends" -A'
saSueh the widow, and sucfr the
widowhood. 1t is the delayed soul
of the husband, who, in his faithful
hall, still manifests himsel;here.and
as memory and presentiment, affects
the transition between two worlds.
o A great and sacred position this,
| to have one foot already in the high
er path, ready and eager to ascend
towards the superior life! So, in
approaching this woman, we ali per-
ceive a sacred thing in her, the gen
tlelinfuence of the dead, who have
no battles here on earth, and only
wish to do here what good they can.
I should like to dwell on this; this
priesthood of the widow is a touch
/ ing feature IN the Religion Of the
Future. But enough for the present.
So do not follow her in those
friendships of the past Of which she
forms the connecting bond, nor in
those new friendships thatshe makes
with the one who is no more, in
transmitting his soul under that
form of maternal love which is called
instruction. c.s, .soa. a9i 4o -
If the husband has left no works,
to answer for him, simply acts which
'are still discussed, if he had especi-
ally worn out his daysin the strug-
giles of public life, then, then above
all, will he require to have his other
and surviving self watch over his
memory, to secure to him the heart
of posterity, a resurrection of glory.
This always comes to whoever
awaitsit-in-the-p person of patient
watcherso Some morning a light
breaks; and the widow, long thrust
into the shade, as ifiburied with
him, sees as saw the Seven Sleep
ers of the legend the banner he had
followed, hung out upon the walls OF
the temples. bright and clear in the
splendor of the dawn.aoo ui -s7J -
!, And. she has thens in1her old sge,
the charming surprise of hearing
people say, as ifHE were still aliveI
"This is a just man.! -. IN
From ali sides, children, Whom he
J did not:know, come to zher,lall olaim
ing such ,asfather Theyregretthat
thox, vonno ,hpcause they cutYld