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' ' ¦ . ¦ ¦ " . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . . . from his sea-girt resting-place will tie not t ^ V ^ Wf ^ o w * ' wip ing for him at home V *^ ii : But why did Stephen love this rocky island , this dati ^ j ^ UJ ^ '' ' tempest-beaten abode ? Did his love of sportf tricfttce ^ him thus to abandon all the cpfoforts of a cheerful nom £ &&& thfelovi iig ^ kindnesses of a solicitous faniil y ? Oh ! ho f WetiWiik ^ he cared but little about the sea-birds , and sometimes hei ^ turned
home with his fowting-pfece undischarged . Alsts f I am cbflipelled to divulge the truth : Stephen Cameron quitted liis little homestead daily , and committed hiniself as an ocfeari-troy ^ &er , not to the mercy , but to the anger of the elements , bec&user #£ courted death . He went fo'fth" with a sort of vagtie fidpe iii His breast that the ocean would be pleased to close over hifti , Wd that his useless career might thus be ended . He ty&s a burthen upon , an expense to , his family , a clog haftging ixmiid their necks , a mill-stone which he thought it would be a good thing to cast , never to rise again , into the waters .
And his mother suspected this ; but vain , very vain wer § her entreaties ; Stephen became more restless , more unsatisfied , more refractory . The more she protested against his conduct , the more obstinate he became . To argue with him was dnly to make him more callous . The honey * of his mild natut ^ had been converted b y frequent disappointment into gall . Despair had dried up within his breast the well-spring of kittMfes ? and love . And yet it behoves us to judge him mildl y j tdiiidk with an exculpatory eye upon the exacerbation of hh restlfesi spirit . Hope deferred—patience exhausted—disappo ^ heaped upon
disappointment—: " The feverish appetite , T ^ e tumult of unproved desire , the aimless Uncertain longings , near-sighted ambition . " , ,. * Gh ! indeed they were all there , wearing out his sOUl , gd&d ^ ing him into a restlessness which hovered nearly UpOh the coAfines of insanity .
The parents trembled for their child—the sisters trebled for their brother . From morn to night and frotti nfeht 66 vttistn their poor hearts were quaking with fear . Yet whit Was i 6 b& done ? Alas ! they knew not ; and so in silence they iveih condemned to etfdur ^ theiv great affliction arid t 6 Wei 6 }> OVfet their impotence to avert the £ vil which encOtnpa ^^ d th ^ trti
But at length a bright thought flashed suddenly ^ pdtibtt # < ff Che devoted sisterhood . Self-sacfificirig she Was , and powerftil to braV 6 all things . Was not anything lft the world better tfHiti an idle lethargy of hope-abandoned sdrtdw ? ' r Those are the silent griefs whicih ctit the hefcf t-stritl ^ ft "Wrote one who knew better than all how to lay bate the agonies
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 1, 1837, page 371, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1832/page/53/
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