Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-06-21

'ne InpornHLng npo,iHsg brake Light stood upon the
WI Mith strange beauty. Earth received azain
A16 daIion,l Ion, VI a thousand dyes and leaves,
And evarvte,D Diossoms and the tinted flowers,
hhd stirreth with the daylight, lifted up
Hs oeau'S 10 the breath Of that sweet morn.
Al things are dark to sorrow; and the light.
ana ioyellness, and fragrant air we're sad
I1 no the detected Hagar. The moist earth
Hn5 H5 tse tbsoaTing ring, odors from its spicy pores,
we're new thin to them; but obi 1t came
n fHP0h her heart like discord. and she felt
now cruelty 1t tries a broken heart
10 see mirth in anything It loves,
ohe stood at Abraham's tent. Her lips were
TIL the blood left them: and the w.na.r,,x
veins
0t her transparent forehead we're sweIled ont
AS nea ptlHe would burst them. Her dark
Vas clear and fearless and the light Of heaven.
Mhlch made its language legible shot back
FROM her long lashes. as tt mad been flame
lier noble boy stood by her with his hand
SiaSPed IN her own, ana his soft, tender feet,
Hahualeu iDf 1buTneytng. He had looked up
IInto ms mothers face, until he caught
Inc splrlt there, and his young heart was
Beneath his snowy bosom. and his form
Strengthened up proudly in his tiny wrath,
Is Is hls llght proportions would have swelled
ii"d 'hey cut ma.ched his spirit, to the man. q
Why bends the patriarch as he cometh now
SpOI his AidH 50 Wcarllys Ills beard
Is low upon ms breast and his high brow
so written with the converse of hfs God.
i5eaTeth the swollen vein If agony.
MS lip IS qulVering, and his wonted step
vi vlg2r Is not there: and though the morn
t1s sfrssbIgos .a't ana 0eautiiul he breathes
ON man NAV bear with suffering; his heart
Is stl Ong thing, and gOillke in the grasp
OI PAIN that wrings mortality; but tear
m Dhe choiu anectlOn cllngs TO, part one tie
That binds him to a wuman's tender love
ana MS great spirit yIeldeth like a reed.
lie gave to her the water aud the bread,
nut spoke no word and trusted not himself
10 LOOK upon her face but laid his hand,
In Silent blessing, on the fair-haired boy,
And LETT her to her lot of loneliness.
slow;
Her pressed lips archod, and her clear eye un-
As it rad been a diamond, and her form
Borne proudly up, as II her heart breathed
Her cnild kept on in silence, though she
Ills hand till 1T was pained; for he had caught
As have said, her spirIt, aud the seed
Of stern nation had been breathed upon.
But Hagar found
No shelter in the wilderness. and on
She kept her weary way. until the boy
Hung down his head. and open'd his parchsd
lips
TOT water. nut sne could not give lt him.
she laid down beneath the sultry SKY
For It was better than the close, hot breath
0i the thick plnes-and tried to comfort him:
But he was sore athirst, and his blue eyes
We're dim and bioodshot, and he could not
Why God denied him water in the wild.
She sat little longer. and he grew
Ghastly and faint, as II he would have died.
And bore him farther on, and laid his mead
Beneath tue shadow of desert shrub;
And, shrouding up her face, she went away.
TIL he should die; and, watching him, she
mourn'd:
God stay thee in thine agony, my boyI
can4ot see thee die; cannot brook
Upon thy brow to look,
And see death settle on my cradle Joy.
And have drunk the light OF thy blue eyel
And could see you die7
~ did not dream of this when thou went stray
ing,
Like an unbound pazeIle, among the flowers;
By the rich gush Of watersources playing,
Then sinking weary TO thy smiling sleep,
SO beautiful and deep.
"Oh no! and when watched by thee the while,
And saw thy bright lips curling in thy dream,
Ana thought OF the dark stream
In my own land OF Egypt the far Nile,
How pray'd that my fathers land might be
An heritage for theei
"And now the grave for its cold breast hath
won theel
And thy white, delicate limbs the earth will
press:
An OH nv last careSs
Must feel thee cold, for a chill hand is on thee.
How can leave my boy. so piIlowed there
Upon his clustering hair?
She stood beside the well her God had given,
10 gush in that deep wilderness and bathed
Th forehead OF he child until he laughed
In his reyiYihE happiness. and lisped
HIS infant thought OF gladness at the sight
OF the cool plashing OF his mothers nlnd.