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the solitary cave of Mecca or in the monastic cells of to the alarming progress of infidelity, the elder daughter Erfurt, whether they eventually introduce sensuality or infidelity, are subjects which fall peculiarly within the province of the philosophy of morals.

of that universal freedom of opinion, which this revolution necessarily introduced. Unrestrained by authority, and fostered by the prevailing liberalism, Carefully eluding all points of controversy in which which a sudden freedom from restraint invariably proreligionists or sectarians might feel interested, and con- duces, the philosophists and illuminati broached their fining our remarks strictly to the operation of events appalling doctrines, subversive alike of government, upon the morals of a people, it is scarcely necessary social order, morals, and religion. The reformers had for us to admit, that in the beginning of the sixteenth overthrown the temporal power, and circumscribed the century, a large portion of the clergy had swollen spiritual dominion of the papal hierarchy; but the inbeyond the girth of the canon, that the temporal fidel and the scoffer, quickened like the reptile in the power of the Roman hierarchy had become unhap- warm sunlight of science, exulted in the triumph of pily blended with its spiritual dominion, and that all naturalism over christianity. Voltaire, in the conreflecting men of the age felt and admitted the neces-centrated malice of his heart, declared himself the persity of reformation in the morals of the teachers of the sonal enemy of God; Rousseau, more dangerous, belaity.

It may have been, that in the moral stagnation of the age, the torrents of revolution were required for the lustration of the people. Like the waters of the great deep, it may have been necessary for the preservation of pure and wholesome religion, that the conflicting tempests of unlicensed opinions and sectarian feelings, should sweep over its bosom, and agitate the element to preserve its purity; so that when the strife should have been rebuked, and calmness restored, it might have reflected from its pure and unruffled surface the unbroken image of the Everlasting. But when the winds were abroad, there was none to stay their violence, and men, alarmed for the protracted continuance of the storm, looked in vain for the celestial image of purity and peace, to spring into life, like the beauteous Aphrodite, from amidst the foam of the tempestuous sea. But if a divine spirit had raised and governed this tempest, as in the days of the redemption of man, when the "storm of wind came down upon the lake, and they were filled with water, and in jeopardy, there would have been among them One, to whom they would have gone, and said, Master, save us or we perish; and he would have arisen, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the waters, and they would have ceased, and there would have been a calm." But alas! there was none so powerful, and the waves of that tempest yet burst against the trembling muniments which girt and defend the morals of christendom.

cause less indiscreet, proclaimed the worship of nature. The one was an open blasphemer, the other a dreaming sophist. The former would have erected amid the ruins of the christian temple an altar to Moloch; the latter, in the illusions of a mind not totally depraved, would have deified mysterious nature. From the declared enemy of christianity there was little to fear, but its firmest muniments were shaken by the insidious scoffer. While the stones which were hurled by the Roman soldiery against the walls of Jerusalem were white, danger could be avoided; but when the color was changed by the command of Titus, there was no longer a warning voice to bid them "bow down, for the bolt_cometh." Voltaire was an atheist, because his wishes had warped his judgment, and made him disbelieve christianity because it was opposed to his passions. "This was his condemnation: he loved darkness rather than light, because his deeds were evil.” But Rousseau was one of the most dangerous sophists of his age; and in the significant language of La Harpe, "every thing in his writings, even truth itself, deceives." What evils have not these men entailed upon the human family, by the perversion of exalted intellect? Filled with the sacred flame, it only expanded within their bosoms and spread its warmth around to detach the frightful avalanche, and scatter desolation.

Not all the celestial harmonies of that nature, which in the wild delirium of infidelity, he would have deified, could elevate the soul of the sophist to its beneficent If we incline to judge impartially between the estab-author; and though endowed with all the graces of a lishment of religion at the introduction of christianity refined intellect, he remained like the "Sea of Glass” and its projected reformation by means merely human in the valley of Switzerland, fast locked in the icy in the sixteenth century, we must learn to discriminate fetters of disbelief, though summer smiled around, and accurately between what is essentially divine and un- all the flowers of loveliness blossomed on its borders. changeably eternal in the revelation of love, and the ele- The whole history of the generations of the children ments of destruction, which man has opposed thereto, of men has been an unceasing struggle between the or mingled therewith. In the ages which preceded and benevolence of the Creator, and the rebellious will of followed the christian era, we trace with sentiments of his creatures. In the blissful walks of Eden, he begrateful admiration, of amazement and awe, the special stowed upon our first parents the highest degree of dispensations of Providence for its propagation and intelligence of which their nature was susceptible; and advancement, its security and protection, and the won- with the slightest possible restriction, imposed as an derful concurrence of events towards this single object acknowledgment of their dependance, they offended of divine love; while, in the introductory and concur- him in the only way in which they could rebel. In the rent circumstances of the reformation of the sixteenth ages which preceded the deluge, men were gifted with century, we are compelled to lament the early appear-powers of intellect, of which we can frame but an imance of those germs of disorganization, which have perfect conception; and they rapidly attained to such since shaken to their foundations the social establish- abandoned profligacy, that "it repented the Lord that ments of the human race. Next to the bitter revilings he had made man on the earth." And when to regeneof hostile sects, which, after this latter event, sprang rate lost man the awful price of the redemption was immediately into life, our attention is forcibly attracted paid,-when by a long course of christian education he

had been fitted for intellectual advancement,—when the | and it is sufficient to banish his productions from every revival of letters had rendered him impatient of the domestic hearth that no husband can read Falkland or blessing, even in the morning of science, he snatched the first rays of the rising sun to kindle the flame of rebellion.

Ernest Maltravers to his wife, no fond brother to his sister, no father to his daughter. There is no more frightful evidence of the decline of public morals in the present generation, than the lamentable facility with which this fascinating writer has perverted the taste of nations, and substituted for the pure morality and manly vigor of Walter Scott, the sickly sentimentalism and the licentious profligacy, which infect every page of his romances. And unless this style of writing be utterly repudiated, there is much cause to apprehend a rapid descent to that gross licentiousness of manners and morals, which have invariably preceded the most deplorable social and political convulsions; for these enemies of mankind, unless they be repulsed in their first advances upon the citadel of virtue, like the martial Romans, deny all mercy when the battering ram shall have once smitten the walls. We feel no disposition to distinguish between the merits of creeds, but it would perhaps have been well for the interests of society, if the religious sects, which protested against the ancient establishment, had not neglected in their zeal to reform abuses, to retain that admirable feature in its ecclesiastical polity, which elevates matrimony to the dignity of a sacrament, and while it merely permits that a wife be put away for the single cause of infidelity, yet holds the bond to be indissoluble, and literally adheres to the solemn injunction, "Whom God hath joined together let no man put asunder." It is the high prerogative of christianity to have elevated woman to her proper station; and in all the events connected with its establishment, she has occupied an important station. As if by a just retribution, as she had been the first to disobey, we find her throughout the ancient dispensa

Man is a social being. A pure morality is essential to the preservation of social institutions—and morality reposes upon revealed religion. Whatever therefore tends to shake the religious principles or to corrupt the morals of a people, is destructive of the social establishments and happiness of man. It is by this standard that we estimate the virtues or the vices of those who undertake to entertain or to instruct mankind. There is something so essentially criminal, so wholly unnatural in the perversion of that intellect, which has been bestowed on us for the praise of God and benefit of our fellow creatures, to the corruption of the morals of a people, that we are at a loss to conceive the inducement to a crime so foul and destructive. We can only compare such miscreants to that most unfortunate of the family of man, the public executioner; an officer absolutely necessary for the preservation of social order. His head and heart are constructed like ours, and yet by some unaccountable propensity, he prefers, to all the agreeable, lucrative, and honorable professions which present themselves in such numbers to the strength and to the ingenuity of man, the miserable employment of inflicting pain and death upon his fellow mortals. He is either ignorant of public opinion, or has the effrontery to brave it. The public authorities have no sooner assigned him a dwelling, than the habitations of others are removed out of sight; and in the midst of such a solitude he lives with his family and children, from whose lips alone he catches the tones of the human voice. And after an execution, when his loathsome task is consummated, he stretches forth his hand, red | tion in a state of comparative debasement, in which she with the sign of death, and justice, shrinking from his was doomed to remain until the coming of the Messiah, presence, throws him a few pieces of gold, which he when she was to bruise the serpent's head beneath her bears off between two lines of spectators retiring with heel. But since that era, while in pagan nations she horror at his approach. No moral eulogy is applicable to still abides the primal curse, she has been elevated to a him, for all such regard the social relations which unite the level with the sterner sex wherever the light of chrishuman family—and this man has none. And yet alltianity has been diffused. We need not advert to the power, all greatness, all subordination depend upon terrible rites of the people who inhabit the banks of the the executioner; he is at once the horror and the bond Ganges, or the aborigines of our own forests, for eviof society. Remove from the world this incompre-dences of the debasement of woman; for all the systems hensible agent, and that instant order will yield to of ancient legislation despised, degraded, and maltreatchaos, governments will be subverted, and societyed the female race. “Woman," says the law of Menou, perish. God, who established sovereignty, likewise "in infancy is protected by the father, by the husband in ordained punishment; these are the two poles between youth, and by the son in old age. Her proper state is which he has poised our globe, for "Jehovah is the always that of dependance. The unconquerable capriLord of the two poles, and upon them he has ordered ciousness of her temper, the inconstancy and versatility the world to roll." And if such be the degradation of of her character, the absence of all personal affection, a human being in the discharge of a necessary and and the natural perversity which characterises her sex, important duty for the maintenance of order, if such have not failed, notwithstanding every precaution, be the estimation in which he is held, and no moral to detach them in a short time from their husbands." eulogy be applicable to him, what station shall we Plato wished that the laws would never for a single assign to those, who, perverting the endowments of the moment lose sight of woman, for, said he, if legislation intellect from their legitimate use, labor to sap the on this point be unwise, they no longer constitute the foundations of morality, and to subvert the social fabric half of the human family; they do however form more by corrupting the VIRTUE OF WOMAN, the fast and firm-than the half, and just so much as they exceed us in est bond of civilization and society?

At the very head of the band of remorseless disorganizers, who, in despicable imitation of Voltaire, have assailed the morals of those two germs of society, women and young men, stands Edward Lytton Bulwer;

number, are they inferior to us in virtue. All are acquainted with the almost incredible slavery and endless tutelage, to which women were subjected in Athens. Upon the death of a father who left behind him an unmarried daughter, the next of kin of the same name

was entitled to educate her and make her his wife; to the scaffold, how touchingly does her simple remark and a husband could bequeath his wife upon his death, find a response in the human heart: "Believe me, my as a part of his property to any individual he might friends, when you put persons of my sex to death, think proper to select. Who does not recollect the God thinks of it more than once." In imitation of the severity of the Roman laws towards females? We divine founder of that religion which had elevated her might well imagine, when we remark the policy of sex to its proper dignity, her last moments seem to these ancient legislators with respect to the second or have been more occupied with the guilt of her perseinferior sex, that they had taken their lessons in the cutors than with her individual sufferings. This is no school of Hypocrates, who considered them essentially place for a eulogy upon woman, doomed, devoted, sufand radically evil. "Woman," he declares, "is per-fering woman. In the hour of hope her presence gilds verse by nature; her disposition ought to be continually the distant horizon, in the day of prosperity she enrepressed, otherwise it will burst forth like the branches hances its comforts, and in the dark hour of adversity, of a tree in every direction. If the husband be absent, when the manly trunk is shaken by the tempest, she the parents are unable to restrain or control her; she clings around it and supports it with all her delicate tenmust be entrusted to the care of a friend, whose zeal drils; and when the bolt shall have fallen, and the riven will not be blinded by affection." In a word, the legis- and shattered stock is all that remains of robust virility, lation of all nations of the earth has degraded woman; she gathers up her clustering foliage around it, in tenand even at the present day she is a slave under the der solicitude to shelter and conceal from the scoffing Koran, and little better than a brute among the sav- and mockery of an unfeeling world the ruin which ages. The Gospel alone, by developing their innate drags her to the earth. It has been the proud destiny and essential excellence, has been able to elevate them of this country to have produced two distinguished to an equality with man. It alone has proclaimed the personages, who, in point of true dignity and moral rights of woman; and after having bestowed those weight of character, have surpassed all the sons of the rights upon her, has implanted within her bosom a children of men. And it is not the least of the high principle the most active and powerful, whether for attributes of these men, that they entertained and exgood or evil, which was the only security for their pro- pressed throughout all the vicissitudes of an eventful tection. Destroy, or even weaken the influence of this life, a proper regard for the excellence, and a lofty sense divine law in a christian community, by extending to of the purity of woman; and the daughters of their dewoman that freedom which can only be safely enjoyed scendants will have shamed their mothers, before they where that influence is deeply felt; and you will im- forget the exalted virtues of Marshall and Washington. mediately behold that noble and touching liberty, which Woman, without whom the two extremities of life she derives from the Gospel, degenerate into the most would be without succor, and its intervening space shameless licentiousness. They will become the most without pleasure, is not only the pride and ornament of terrible instruments to extend that universal corrup-joyous life, but her affections, like the waters of the tion, which in a short time must shake the pillars of Lybian fountain, grow warmer as the shades of adverthe state. The result of such widespread corruption sity darken around the paths of our pilgrimage. The must be felt in any nation; and soon, very soon, as great objection we have to the principles and morals public morals are corrupted, the government itself, of Bulwer, Byron, and all that licentious school, is, reposing on morality, must bow down burdened with that they attempt to infuse their mortal venom wherever precocious afflictions, and its leprous decrepitude will its pernicious influence is most destructive; for they fill all beholders with dismay and horror. A Turk or seek not only to sully the mirror of virgin purity, but a Persian, who should attend one of our festive dances, to loosen the sacred bands of wedlock, and ridicule the would consider us mad; for he could not reconcile to sanctity of conjugal rites. In this the spirit of their his ideas of female purity this mingling of the sexes, writings is directly opposed to the genius of christianity; and this unmeasured license. The heart of woman is so and worse than the infidel, they not only strike at the much more awake to celestial influences, her disposi- faith, but they labor to subvert the existence of social tion is so much more conformable to the spirit of reve- man. Let no lukewarm christian, let no tardy moralist lation, that by a kind of retributive justice, christian- tell us of the rape of Helen, or of the derelict queen of ity has thrown around the sex her lightest mantle of Carthage, from whose hapless and illegitimate loves freedom, and knowing well how easy it is to inspire have sprung two of those poems which seem destined vice, she has denied to the sterner race the power to to immortality. They were penned before the introcompel it. Let this maxim be deeply impressed upon duction of christianity, and were designed for a people the minds of legislators, that as woman owes her free- among whom woman was deplorably debased, and dom and elevation to christianity, so it will be neces- the mere instruments of a master's pleasure. The sary, before abolishing the scriptures, either to confine scholar still admires in the Iliad, the wisdom of Nestor, her, as in the Ottoman empire, or to subject her to the craft of Ulysses, the valor of Achilles, the courage frightful laws, as among the Hindoos. Well did the of Hector, the prowess of Ajax, the sorrows of Priam, projectors of the French revolution understand the inti- and the regal state of Agamemnon; but in the effemimate connexion between christianity and female excel-nacy of Paris and the inconstancy of Helen, there was lence, and the influence of that sex upon the morals of a people; and it is one of the darkest features in that darkest page of the book of man, that they first degraded her to a level with the brute, and only offered her their disgusting homage when she had been stripped of every moral attribute. When Elizabeth of France was led

nothing to shock the morals of a pagan generation, and woman was already debased beyond the influence of writers. But under the christian dispensation, since the revival of letters, and the consequent refinement of morals and manners, woman has become the bond of society; and those who spread before her the seductive

illusions of vice under the seemly garb of virtue, de- ja man without love; and if a man be weary of the serve to be accursed of God and man. How few works wise discourses of the apostles, and of the innocency of are there of a light character in English literature which an even and private fortune, or hates peace or a fruitful a virtuous woman may safely read? Yet, be it men-year, he hath reaped thorns and thistles from the tioned to the enduring honor of the author of Waverley, that in the whole series of his romances there is not perhaps a single passage, which, in the hour of dissolution, he could have wished obliterated.

choicest flowers of paradise; for nothing can sweeten felicity itself but love. No man can tell, but he that loves his children, how many delicious accents make a man's heart dance in the pretty conversation of those But if there be those who desire to learn how genius dear pledges: their childishness, their stammering, their inspired by virtue can speak of holy wedlock, let them little angers, their innocence, their necessities, are so turn to the epic of Milton, and behold the mysteries of many little emanations of joy and comfort to him that nature unfolded with all the chaste sublimity of chris-delights in their persons and society. But he that loves tian eloquence.

not his wife and children feeds a lioness at home, and broods a nest of sorrows, and blessing itself cannot make him happy; so that all the commandments of God enjoining a man to love his wife, are nothing but so many necessities and capacities of joy. She that is loved is safe, and he that loves is joyful. The wife should partake secretly, and in her heart, of all her husband's joys and sorrows, and believe him comely and fair though the sun hath drawn a cypress over him. She that hath a wise husband must entice him to an eternal dearness, by the veil of modesty and the grave robes of chastity, the ornament of meekness, and the jewels of faith and charity: her brightness must be purity, and she must shine round about with sweetnesses and friendship, and she shall be pleasant while she lives, and desired when she dies. Such is a touching sketch of the bliss of wedded life, and of the dependance of the happiness of man upon the purity and excellence of woman; and it is into this garden of bliss, to corrupt and poison everything around, that the immoral writer would crawl, like another serpent, to tempt the virtue of the daughters of Eve.

To what causes shall we attribute the depraved taste of the present generation, and the morbid appetite for intellectual and moral excitement? Whither has fled the Anglo-Saxon solidity of our character, and to what are we indebted for the frivolous levity of the age? The shadowy genius of German mysticism seems to have impregned our literature; and the perverted, unnatural, unhallowed sentiments of Byron, the filthy puling of Moore, and the deliberate seduction of Bulwer, seem to have banished all taste for the ease and elegance of Addison, the dramatic sublimity of Shakspeare, the surpassing purity of Milton, and the touching eloquence of the Bible. And the old English writers with all their Saxon vigor, how are they neglected! How beautifully has Bishop Taylor, in his sermon upon marriage, shadowed forth the immense consequence to man of the unsullied purity of woman? In that discourse his chaste and eloquent sentiments find their way directly to the heart. Marriage, he says, is a school and exercise of virtue; and though marriage hath cares, yet the single life hath desires, which are more troublesome and more dangerous, and often end in sin, while But we must conclude. How much of the literary the cares are but instances of duty and exercises of fame of Byron and Bulwer is to be attributed to advenpiety; and therefore if single life have more privacy of titious circumstances; of Byron to his title and of Buldevotion, yet marriage hath more necessities, and is an wer to his clique? Why should we on this side of the exercise of more graces. Marriage is the proper scene Atlantic, in the infancy of a literature struggling into of piety and patience, of the duty of parents, and the life against the jealousy and overpowering opposition charity of relations; here kindness is spread abroad, and of European writers, join in the senseless cry of defalove is united and made firm as a centre. Marriage is mation against our own countrymen, which is raised by the nursery of heaven. The virgin sends prayers to venal and selfish pamphleteers? Virtue alone can lead God, but she carries only one soul to him; but the to substantial fame; and while the English writers are state of marriage fills up the number of the elect, and viciously and dangerously corrupt, American authors, hath in it the labor of love, and the delicacies of friend- animated by a pure ambition, will gather no renown at ship, the blessing of society, and the union of hands and the price of virtue. And whatever station may be hearts. It hath in it less of beauty, but more safety assigned them in the temple of fame by a perverse than the single life; it has more care, but less danger; generation, will matter little to those, who, in addition it is more merry and more sad, is fuller of sorrows and to the warm approbation of every upright heart, will fuller of joys. It lies under more burdens, but is sup-carry with them into the evening of life the consoling ported by all the strengths of love and charity, and reflection, that those signal attainments which are theirs those burdens are delightful. Marriage is the mother of the world, and preserves kingdoms, and fills cities, and churches, and heaven itself. Celibate, like the fly in the heart of an apple, dwells in a perpetual sweetness, but sits alone, and is confined and dies in singularity; but marriage, like the useful bee, builds a house, and gathers sweetness from every flower, and labors and unites into societies and republics, and sends out colonies, and feeds the world with delicacies, and obeys their king and keeps order, and exercises many virtues, and promotes the interest of mankind, and is that state of good things to which God hath designed the present constitution of the world. There is nothing can please

for high and holy purposes, have been successfully devoted to the advancement of morals and the best interests of man. He who, in a corrupt age, has disdained to turn aside even for a moment, from the rude pathway of virtue, to build up a fleeting reputation amid the ruins of morality and virtue, will be remembered and read long after those enemies of mankind, who now shed a baleful influence in society, shall have passed away, like those noxious lights, which can only exist in a state of impurity and putrescence.

In conformity with the principles which we have endeavored to establish in relation to the perversity of the moral faculty in man, we already perceive the bud

ding fruits of licentiousness. The unsparing license | consent, admiring her as the mother of their peace and with which public and private morals have been as-joy." Who would disturb this organic harmony? sailed, has introduced into society a corresponding None but the enemies of God and man!

spirit of innovation upon all established institutions, social and political. We have broken loose from our ancient moorings, and are rapidly leaving the ancient landmarks far behind us. Putting out from the shores, and guided by the polarity of reason, we are seeking restlessly and hopelessly for happier climes. The whole world, all the nations of the earth, are in a state of unwholesome agitation; we have become impatient of the salutary restraints of law and order; and if we may correctly judge of the explosion which impends by the tremulous agitation which we observe and feel around us, there is yet reserved for history lessons which she may not obliterate with her tears, because they are designed to appal and to instruct future generations. "The stateliness of houses," we quote and conclude with this beautiful passage from an eminent writer, "the goodliness of trees, when we behold them, delighteth the eye; but that foundation which beareth up the one, that root which ministereth unto the other nourishment and life, is in the bosom of the earth concealed; and if there be occasion at any time to search into it, such labor is then more necessary than pleasant, both to them which undertake it, and for the lookers on. In like manner the use and benefit of good laws, all that live under them may enjoy with delight and comfort, albeit the grounds and first original causes whence they have sprung be unknown, as to the greatest part of men they are. Since the time that God did first proclaim the edicts of his law upon the world, heaven and earth have hearkened unto his voice, and their labor hath been to do his will. 'He made a law for the rain; he gave his decree unto the sea, that the waters should not pass his commandment.' Now, if nature should intermit her course, and leave altogether, though it were for awhile, the observation of her own laws; if those principal and mother elements of the world, whereof all things in this lower world are made, should lose the qualities which now they have; if the frame of that heavenly arch erected over our heads should loosen and dissolve itself; if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it may happen; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now, as a giant, doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were, through a languishing faintness, begin to stand, and to rest himself; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp, the earth be defeated of heavenly influence, the fruits of the earth pine away, as children at the withered breasts of the mother when the fountain of life had been dried up; what would become of man himself, whom these things do now all serve? See we not plainly, that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

"Of law there can be no less acknowledged, than that her rest is in the bosom of God; her voice the harmony of the world; all things in heaven and earth do her homage; the very least as feeling her care, and the greatest as not exempted from her power. Both angels and men, and creatures of what condition soever, though each in different sort and manner, yet all with uniform

MELANCHOLY HOURS.
Hinc illa lachrymæ ?

DEDICATED TO MY DAUGHTERLESS MOTHER.

I would I were on some far strand,
Where wildly rolls the ocean wave,
Far distant from my native land,
And pure affection's early grave.
There, oft alone, unseen, I'd roam,

When high its troubled waters rose,
Far from the green haunts of my home,
Where all my buried hopes repose.

And could I find one kindred form,

Like me oppressed, to share my wo,
Some sea-boy from the ocean storm,
O, then life's transient years might go.
There would I live and die, forgot

By all that I have known before,
With murm'ring waves to mark the spot
On that secluded peaceful shore.
For now I feel each passing day

Seems longer than an age to me,
For life's pure dreams have fled away,

And love and hope have ceased to be.
Why should I wish to perish here,

And wither, where all else is bright,
Where not a smile, nor e'en a tear,

Illumes the darkness of my night?

When by that distant snowy foam,

Of every joy of life bereft,
No rending bitter pang would come
To mind me of the home I left.

Yes, there I'd roam with spirit free,

And look to childhood scenes no more; For what is left to solace me

When all I've lov'd have gone before?

And now the last hope of my heart

Is fled where all is bright and fair,
And I would willingly depart

Could 1, dear sister, meet thee there.

And tell me, Susan, whose far grave
I ne'er again shall stand beside,
Will thy pure spirit by that wave

Commune with me at eventide?

O! say it will-and I will haste
With heart of joy to that far sea;
For life is now a dreary waste,
And I would sleep in death with thee.
Tallapoosa county, Alabama.

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