Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1893-11-03
MisctllamenMs.
A FRAGME NT.

Written for tie Sentinel.
After twenty years | have come home
once more-home-alas !! it is only q
name, have no home.
The friends I loved are gone the
rooms are empty not one familiar voice
falls upon my ear, only silence and
memories greet me wherever may turn.
The very furniture seems strange, its
glossy beauties are dim with age aud
neglect, its brass ornaments in whose
pristine brightness | was wont to take
such eager delight are now only black
ened spots.
The dusky faces of my childhood's
friends are scattered or long since gath.
cred with parents aud comrades within
that silent home from whence not one
ever returns. Oh how pity this
rushing, skurrying generation that have
never known the fond devotion and low
ing care of brightly turbaned head
nanny, such as was my mothers maid,
Martha dear, foolish, lenient friend /;
may you receive the reward duesyou for
your faithful care, unfagging love, and
freely given servtudc to your owners
only child can appreciate the Poets
lonely words
81 feel like one who treads alone
Some banquet hall deserted,
Whose lights are fled and garlands dead,
Aud all but me departed"
cross the wide hall into the low
ceilcd parlor, onward to tho dining
room, from thence to the housekecpor's
stting-room over the kitchen. The wide
old Fireplace that used to be so brilliant
with pine knots and oak logs is dark
and oavernous, nothing but dead, cold
ashes fill its wide mouth, round which
there used to be such merry songs, nc
companied by the everlasting claug Of
homemade baDjos, Now all is still
the fire is out. the many voices silent
forever, not one labor-hardcned hand is
there to clasp mine, not one Good bless
our masters little daughter" not
sound can | hear, not even the rat-tat
of frightened mouse behind the worm
eaten wainscot. turn with n sigh and
co"e ,u'o '"o u'","H ''Vo" h"1 ',o'o
its mahogany tints Of beauty; dust is
thick upon the sideboard, its Chippen-
a-'0 800, 49, " ~ 49, ~, 49, t Jo~
w;,h wolJ ,bo on,.nIaoa oL;nnoa M
rnLbcd The vcrv piclures on Tho wall
seem mot tho so4e tbe featuros Moor
.,ronoelv from crocked framos and ooh.
wohhed c.nvas do not I;noor hnt
hur,v into tho lono low nnrIor that
room whom "a n AHA was nv most
cber;sbod amb;tion IN naas an cvonino
AZ n reward for day Of ooodncss
There in the sunny sontb corner stands
nv mother's low rocker and LIGHT stand
in which alwavs was n tall cendlostick
and bor f.yor;to hooL aim, mo ovos
T nm n child AGAIN as cross Tho once
crimson Garnet so(tlv In hor side and
ber sweet vo;co saws ..bas nv l;t,lo
daughter been good to.dav p Onposito
and almost in font of The vida cbimnov
r;oco Ia my fatbor,s old Ieo,born arn,
rha;r-w;nier md anime, II a,wau.
s,ood ms, there The v;s;oo has acJ 7
onon INV cves and Lrow mo- f,,hor has
bren dead Tor manv ycnrsHoven no mv
ANAL mniet mo,hey wust b,vo hee, m
onool almos, a onar,,r ~ a con,nrv
rs ..' ,I IL II, .a ,
'i ~. 'no "a.' "nu mount sne S'olr,
why 10 ' u;, '.P' alc worn ana
aroo, ma horo slso no, an ooh" 81 ,In
Sas mot tome Of veil remcmhoroJ
po;co. can hear I ,'sn a L"n a.i
stand With, NV old room ,ho ron,a
wLaro;" ! droon,,d ~, dsoa,,,a V aod , ,;,,nJ
mo- conn, iC, Nn;b;na - ahanaa IL
I cross 10 NV G,vori,o v;n1ow and 70,
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a. ,hc h,oad w;rdaw ioJaa and sJ r.
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