Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1911-03-08
GOOD NIGHT, NOT GOODBYE. "
To the Memory of our Translated Friend
Blanche RothschiId Fehling.


And he, who oft times cruel is. dark Deat I'll;
Was SO deep sorrowful to stay her breath,
He came, all clemency.
He would not let her know.
so SO well he loved the bright soul he must take.
That for our grieving and her own fair sake,
He hid his shaft and bow.
Upon her lips he laid
That kiss of God which kills but does not
harm;
With tender message, breathing no alarm.
He said, BE unafraid!"
Sorrow grew almost glad.
Pain half-forgiven, and parting weIl-nigh
kind,
To mark how placid by our sweet girls
Consented. Ready clad
In robes of unseen light.
Her willing soul spread wing, and while she
Darling! Goodbye" we moaned. but she at
Sighed, NO! Good-night"
Good night. then! Sweetheart Wife,
If this world be the dark time and it's NOR
row
Day-dawn Of Paradise. dispelling sorrow.
Lighting our StarleSS life,
Goodnight! and not Goodbye!
Goodnight! and best Good morrow if we
wake;
Yet why so quickly tired? Well. we must
Haste to be done, and die!
Now you are dead, who turned all things to
grace;
We see Death made pale slumper on your
face;
Goodnight But is dawn near?
Flowers rich OF scent and hue
| We Id upon your sleeping place. And these
Flowers of fond verse, which once had gift to
Being your own-rake too!'
Blanche Rothschild was born in
Lancaster, Wisconsin, May %, 1878,
the youngest of eight children which
came to bless the union of William
and Mary Rothschild. She united
with the First Congregational church
of this city May 9th. 1898. Graduated
from the Lancaster high school class
of 1899, and was a student in the Gem
City Business College at Quincy, ILL.,,
in 1905 She was united in marriage
to Otto Failing June 4th. 1910, since
which event she has resided in Cass-
Vile.
February 10th, 1911, a child was
prematurely born. the birth being
presumably superinduced by an attack
of iagrippa. To add to the alarming
complications, the presence Of a disease
that is inevitably fatal, was discover
ed, fact hitherto unsupported. Doctors
and nurses with strenuous and un-
abating devotion united unavailing
effort with all that love could devise
or bestow to save the precious life of
the little mother Alas After a
noble fight in suffering intensest,
hoping against hope, in patient. brave
endurance and final, most touching
resignation, shorty after o. clock p.
M, February %. she passed sweetly in
to the peace Of that Love which pas
seth understanding which has no
variableness, neither shadow of turn
ing. And the pail Of sorrow which
settled upon the hearts of the devoted
husband, the venerable and doubly-
bereft father, the loving brothers and
sisters, spread over the whole COM
munity, where the young husband and
wife were held in highest regard, the
sweet simplicity and lovableness of the
latter endearing her much to the
people among whom she had resided
less than year. And the sorrow in
Lancaster, her girlhood' S home, is in
expressible.
"she is not dead but sleeping" saith the
Lord,
But tears are falling like the summer rain
|
Sank meath her cross of pain"
Il is an occasion in which words,
however tender, however eloquent, are
but feeble medium to convey the
grief and sympathy. The hand of the
writer wavers. and her eyes are dim
med with tear-drops Her own and
only sister, bride of less than year,
with a character as beautiful as our
little lamented friend possessed, be-
loved and incurred by all who had
ever known her. passed from her newly
established home in Cassville after
days OF agony too great to be portrayed
into the Eternal peace. The little life
that cost her own, went out too. To-
gether they have dwelt in Paradise
these many years And the aged
mother mourns still, and like Rachel
of old, will not be comforted.
Often in remembered sorrow comes
to comfort that sweet thought which
Charles Dickens puts into the mind of
the school master in his Death of
Little Nell
. 1t is not in this world that
heaven justice ends. Think what it
is compared with the world to which
her young spirit has winged it's early
flight, and say: If one deliberate
wish, expressed in solemn terms above
this bed. could call her back to life,
which of us would utter it - All,
which All. which, IF we, frail
and human can feel such an aching
sympathy for those who weep so great
a loss how JipoifIoco ,,o,1ch no rho yo;&x,