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366 MADAME DE LAMARTINE.
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Announced It Is A Year The Ago Death Sin...
whence But lie h longed owever to he see again her , set and out on soon the 19 bac th k of at November Beyrouth ; _; ;
the but ruins this , time of Baalb Julia , e accompanied ck , thinking 1 her them father to be . one He took of those her to grea see t
a si Ci g deser On hts that which t steed day it , " hich well he writes I t o impress , broug " u h p t moun on for the her ted imag f , for ina th t tion he e D firs of t youth time Sea _r , . , alone
and of which an Arab servant held the bridle . We were . and The verdure day , alt . houg Never h in had November I seen , this was remarkable glowing with child light in , h such eat , ht f
and seeing an ec when tasy , fee with we ling . nature Every made , wi moment the th mo circui tion she t , wi f turned t t h the hill to deli of me g , San cry o ing D living imi ou tri t ; ,
, hal had ted traversed 'Is it not the 5 _^ said plain she , and to reached me ' the the longest pine-trees the most , where beau we
in tiful all , and , life 'the ? most " , Alas deli ! ghtful and excursion , it was the that last I , have ! A few t m days ade
my yes ; la ber ter , 1832 and Julia in the was arm no s of more her . father She died and on mother the 5 th of the Decem home
which , she , had so lately been helping to adorn . od It , was The an air hour
warm before ; noon it was when a beautiful she gave sunshiny up her day soul . to The G- little . Arab g was irls danced before the doorunder the large palm treeswithout
of thinking Julia ' s that illow a great with grief her , was so ts close attended at hand a monk . By , from the side the Christian convent p , at Beyrouth paren He , it was who presented for
. t t he last ave time it , t t he the crucifix beref to the t father lip of the mo dying ther child as a , and t
farewell g . Julia was poor embalmed with the same perfumes with which of the Hol r Lord Land Jesus then Chr they ist w wrapped as embalmed her in in a t white he hol shroud y days . -
nec Her k head her was y lids slightl ; tl rai sed s , her a li v g h her t curlin the g hai r f f ell upon h irl er young g
parents who , looked sl eeping gen dream her y s face a beautiful g then the dream coffin . Once was closed more and her
upon ; p saries laced from in a temporary the French tom consulate b , at the at B door eyrouth of , which silent two as is janis their - t
which custom the , rolled Roman a great Proconsuls slab of once blafck rolled marble to , the similar door t of o t the ha
forth tomb of for Chris she t ha . d But said , h " ence If we , she are was shiw in recked some sort and my to come body
is found ; let it be buried at Saint Point p . It is there , I wish to die" Before , returnito Francethere were melancholy
days . in the store hills . of The Beyrouth winter ng lost becam their e , sad last with leaves care and ; the all looked olives
upon cold and dreary to the desolate parents . The poet , wept for his
little Julia .
366 Madame De Lamartine.
366 MADAME DE LAMARTINE .
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Aug. 1, 1864, page 366, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01081864/page/6/
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