FOR THE COUNTY POST. Al SKETCH.

3Y GREe0RY GRAPHIc ESQ.
{"newspaper_name": "The Litchfield County post.", "edition": "01", "page": "p1", "byline": ""}
{"character_count": 2216, "word_count": 398, "ccnet_language_score": [0.9269000291824341], "ccnet_perplexity": [2016.800048828125], "fasttext_language": ["en"]}
By GREGORY GRAPHIC ESQ.

 The moon was smiling on the joyous sea, Kissing the sparkling wayelets and the foam Which the mild night breeze rais'd turnul- | s taOusly s9 @

 The crested pillows, as with giadsome haste, Crowded upon the far seen pebbly shore. The heavens were dres't with brightness, and ! the clouds,

 Pillow'd on some far sky, had sunk to rest. No coming storm sigh q from the shore, or sang Her warnings from the caverns of the. deep. The n1easureless iIIimitable air, 'As The quiet sea, its sandy girdle bright v sal' In the soft night beam, and the waving trees, Which in the chequer'd distance feebly sang, As the light breeze their high tops touch'd, all

 join'd, , <, .- s ~s,a., in flre and placid harmony, to. drive "A apprehension from the sailors heart. e saw the ship walk on, apparently

 A self directed power: in gallant guise, She toss.d the spray aside, and her white sails, Like clouds around the setting sun, were bright Beneath the moon Each heart, within her,

 snlild e' At the glad night. The seamen on the mast Whisfled the songof port, and loud and clear The helmsman cheer'd. Bright eyes were .., there, S

 And moisten'd cheeks, and palpitations quick. As the now plain seen light house blaz'd so near. I ,look'd again; the boiling surges round Told where she'd sunk, with all her joyous its crew. hsas .S% 5 '4s Aahidden rock she'd struck, and instantly, Wasain the deep dark bosom of the flood. Tie moon still smild upon the joyous sea The wavelets danc'd upon the pebbly shore; The chequer'd forest nodded to the breeze The pillows swelPd and sank, exuiting still In the lov'd moon but in the gallant ship s Bright beamihg eyes were quench' d in the dark

 wave ssaz3S

 And moistcn'd cheeks were cold; and the full

 gush '5s, -t sss s' That palpitating told, how home was near, Was stilPd beneath the cold devouring sea. Methought, that sea was like the friendships

 bright .s5 Of this vain world; surface calm and clear, With bean1ing sky, and smiling moon, and

 wave As quiet as an infant sleep; but cold And dark, with treacherous rocks beneath; And he, who trusts, like them, will wake from

 s 8 dreams + B. T.s at9 Of love, far in the gloomy oceans depths. @s