ELLEN.

4 Shetch from "Seenes and Taoughts.'


NY WAsIII SGTOX IRVING.
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epdeavorcd to learn the story of the i'll
fated Ellen and the interesting mourner
whom had beheld lowering over her ash
es; and found that they were indeed the
panes of a mothers heart. which had caus'
ed the Grief had witnessed. She had at
tended her husband abroad, through many
a scene of trial and hardship, she had dress
ed his wounds upon the day of Battle, and
|. she had watched over her soldiers lowly
pallet, with firm and unremitting tender
ness; bnt his wounds were healed, and he
rose from his sick bed, astonlshed at her
macnanimitv, and grateful for her affection.
They returned together to their native coun-
try. that they might seek reward tor their
mast suffrrings in the bosom OF the country
that paye them birth, and in the happy re
tirement which they best loved. Several
children blesscd their union; but some were
npped in the bud of infancy, and the rest
prematnrely destroyed, ere yet they were
tully unfot,cd into blossoms. One beloved
dauphter--their beautiful Ellen--alonc re-
NAMED 70 them. All the tender shoots
were wtherrd save this one; and her
they cherished as their sole remaining PRIDE,
their only surviving prop. lhat chiid grew
up ali that her doating parents wished, aaa
I lovely in mind as in person, shc construed
their sum OF happiness on earth. but alas


the sweetest and most delicate tlawers are
often nipped the soonest ny the Call wina
or by the blighting underwater trasii'
form but too easily sunk under the pressure
Of disease, ami like a tender reed bent DC
meath its own unsupported weight. ile'
ewes. indeed, spark!el with unusual lustre


INIT II was no more like the briliance Q
health than the false glare OF a WANDERING
meteor resembles the clear and steady el


fulprnce of the meridian sun; and though


bright bloom colored her cheek, 1t Was no


the rosy tint of vigor, but the harbngcr o


annroaching ruin. The terrified pan ents be
. held with horror, the dreadful symptoms
, In an agony of mind, which none besides cal
fn,lv anDreciate they tried all that natur


dictated, or art devised, to stop the prosres
Of the fatal malady. But it was too late
1t made rapid and gigantic strides; and mop
itself was soon obliged to droop in anguish
i The lovely victim saw her fate before hei
! INT her wines were plumed for Heaven, an


She wished not to hover longer upon tn
:, earth While her body dropped and Ian
, puished. her mind became strengthened AN
! fortified; and the undecaying spirit SCENE


to ching forth more vislby, and more oeau


tifnIIv. when the mortal shroud winch en-
+. veloned il was gradually failing. At lenst
: l;fr gradually wancd- and waned, until II
6 lamn shot up one light, but qulverlng gleaI
. and was then darkened for ever one wa
flead-but the rose still lived on her chcci
4 and smile still played upon the hait clo'
i ed lips, whose last accents had oreathea u,
{ fond name of mother And those VINO ioof
: ed upon her could scarcely believe out tha
n she sweetly slept.