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STILL LIFE. 33
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The The General Village Rule Of Upp , It...
that paths I of was tlieir lad forefathers no , " so children I said , were until to at climb length . I almost fancied knees upon my
and kiss my g eyes ; but young surely I could not have been altogether convinced , or else what need of further cavilling ?
And so , noiselessly as the drift weed floats down the stream into the cottagers very ' bosom lives of lided the ocean as itself quietl , the years as mine passed but on there . True was this the
difference between g usthat away to me "was allotted y life , and labor ,- —to live , to labor , and to love was , their fair portion alone . Adown the fields ,
across the meadows , lingering about the porch , or in the barns , I met the men and the maidensand I knew without listening
young , tion that have they s chanted ang the without everlasting chorus rehearsals which for generation the last after six thousand generaany
years me no ; village but for or me provincial no Jacob Petrarch offered his dedicated seven years his l the of yre desert s , ervitude because lains , to of
me no crazed or melancholy knight wandered across p "of Palestine It were well , or dared " I cried the in briny the bitterness wave . of heart" to love and my ,
loseto forfeit the , affection , to bury the beloved one , to crush the love hope , , and " in to short be loved it seemed again as . if But anything even this would was be denie better d me than , and never as life to
commenced , so it has closed , sad , silent , and alone . Many years have now passed sometimes since these sundry dreamings questionings first haunted still me , arise but , old conc as erning I am , even this
buried "When subject I was . about seven and thirty , my father died , full of years , he died
as a good he had man know lived and , an leaning how honorable sorel upon , whom my woman arm all , but loved ' s heart he and never respected panted knew under , ; and now the ,
burden never can . In the , little church y yard my at Leigh , close by the sun-dial , on that side of the chancel where the elder grows out of the turret ,
member ( travellers it on was the a hi calm gh road autumn can see day both when , ) we we buried carried my him father to his . I long
rethe home stirred grass ; the and , for mist thoug the lay h air the low was paths over heavy the were and fields strewn still , and , with not the a chestnuts leaves branch lay of and damp any berries tree on
of the , mountain ashso that the crimsoned ground told wherever our their melanchol pattering y cortege the whole had , passed time , we yet were none there fell and He disturbed descende us d with into
. the stand grave that , and he was then veril , ah ! and and * not indeed till then taken , did and we that believe we remained or under- .
Remained for what ? Ah y ! that was the question , . Would the problem of life ever be solved in this world ? we askedas we traced and
, re- How traced long in imag the service ination seemed one solution —how for strange its difficulties to have after an another arm to .
, lean upon , to be supported instead of being the supporter known that , —how William glad
my father would have been could he only have was with me in my great trouble ! i
vol .. in . _)
Still Life. 33
STILL LIFE . 33
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), March 1, 1859, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01031859/page/33/
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