"a Mothers sorrow cannot be conceived,


"But by Mother.' HANNAH MoonE
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marked mother at the tomb Of her son. Her
sable garment coincided with the deep gloom that
hung heavily around her heart. Her declining
head her close clasped hands, her fixed position.
her tear bedewed cheek, bespoke the intensity OF
her soul. The scene struck the strings OF my sym
pahy, and correspondent tear, flowing from the
impulse of similar feeling, trickled down my
cheek. Fancy lent her creative power 10 my mind,
and methought heard the grief inspiring soloquy
O the hearthroken mother, as she resolved in her
depressed mind the following thoughts "Ah
yes, my child ihcu art numbered with the dead
The curtain Of my hopes has suddenly dropped,
and the thick cloud Of soul rendlng dependency
shuts the lille Of Joy and tranquility from my mind.
When feeble infancy was thine, with what rapture
watched the pleasurable smile, playing on thy
hesth-llushed cheek II was then that my heart
bounded with ecstasy, and antcdated the joys OF
youth and the happiness of manhood. | thought
thou wouldst have been the pillow OF my old age
thought thou woulds have supported my toltering.
decllniag life, when the hand OF Time had quench
Cd the fervor Of its vitality. But ah those love-
aulit hopes gone forever they are buried in The
humid earth with thee. No more hear thy voice,
10 more mark Thy sprighiy eye thy voice is
silent as the grave, and thy eye liked by The rigid
power ot dsath. Scarce mere than eighteen years
had rolled around thy hcad before lhe grim mon
@ter came and snatched thee from the world. Thou
vert stricken as the tender sapling, seasled by the
ishuing's Hery bolt. Oh Death thou art the de.
sroyer Of a mothers bliss! But still amid all my
sorrow will say,


Worms may banquet on thy frame.


And ruin feed on what was FAIR;


Back to The skies from whence il came,


The soul recalled, shall flourish there"


with these words she ended, and taking her little
daughter by the hand she slowly retired.


II often happens, that those are most desircus OF
governing others, who are least able to govern
themselves.