The New Age, Concordium Gazette, & Temperance Advocate Volume 1 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1843 edition. Excerpt: ..." Remember Mary " They often talked together of these things; and one day the youth said, " What hinders us, dear Mary, that we do not set out on a pilgrimage in search of our lost home '."' With a smile she answered, " Perhaps it will be our father's will that I shall go before. If I do, will you not dream you hear my voice singing, Her words made the youth sad in his heart. " I should never find the way, without you," he said; and, as he clasped her hand, the warm tears fell on it. Seven days after that, he went to see his Mary, and the sorrowing mother told him the _Angel of Death had been at the mill. Her darling one had gone to the spirit-land._ When that fair body was laid in the ground, John covered the place wiih the blue mountaiu flowers, and ihere he sat and wept. The good mother spoke words of comfort; but he heard her not. Soothing voices breathed in the evening air; but he arose. and stamped on the ground. and tore his hair, and screamed, " Sing me these songs no longerl l have no home. They are nll lies--lies that ye utter. llas not Mary gone away for ever, even as the vision of the primrose vanished into thin air? Find some other dreaming fool to listen to your song l " A grieved and moaning sound was heard. and died away il0Wly--rzlr)'ly, in the distance. The youth rushed down from the mountain. and roamed sullenly by the sea-shore. Although it was broad sunshine. the sky looked dark, and there was no light upon the earth. The pleasant birds were gone; crows cawed in the air; and the wuggnns creaked more harshly, since Mary died. All at once, a tall figure, with a brass trumpet in his hnnd, walked up and blew a loud blast in his ear. " In the name of the Furies, ...