THE DEAD MOTHER AND SLEEPING CHILD.
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THE DEAD MOTHER AND SLEEPING CHILD. A young woman, with her child not more than a year Old called at the house of anner and modest y craved lodging for the nght-her speech manner, and appearance indicated that she had seen better dAys-that hers was no common misery Early on the morrow the child heard crying and on the far mers daughter entering the room of the wanderer the babe lay reposng on it's face fast aseep-bu its mot CT was dead. "--Neuuspaper Paragraph They knew not whence she came-she crav'd

 A lodging for the night-- A shelter for herself and child

 Until the morrOw's light. Once more OCT vale and mountain lay, That sne may trace her lonely way. They knew not where her home, nor who

 The wanderer might be-; ene seemed abandoned by the world,

 Perchance no home had she. lovers scorn, a fathers rage. Might have urged her wretched pilgrimage. No matter from what cause she roam'd,

 No matter for what end-- .'.- In woe friend proves stranger oft,

 A stranger oft friend.

 The mother and her infant bland ATe welcomed by a strangers hand. Night wears away the sleeping child

 Cings to its mothers breast! " Oh! who can utter half the thoughts

 Which breaks the mother's rest She sleeps nOt-t though her babe is sleeping. Archange-she sleeps !-her babe is weeping. The babe hath ceased to weep. The lark

 Upspringing greets the morn! There's music in the blessed woods

 Earth seems as newly born. AppF0Rch the wanderers quiet bed- The babe,s aseep-lhe mother, dead!

 THOMAS C. JoNES.