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A Brother In Adversity.
A BROTHER IN ADVERSITY .
There pass'd along the churchyard path a man Whose meagre , pallid looks bespoke his woe ; And he had come to seek a kindred ' s grave . Not long his search ; his tatter'd uncouth garb Was deem'd a profanation to the place Where gilded marble told the tale of death :
The officious beadle turned him from the gate , Met his subdued rebuke with threat ' ning sounds Of vagrancy and stocks , and bade him go . He turn ed away with slow and devious steps , Wrapt in the gloom of his own solitude :
Despair sat cow e ring in his hollow eye , And spread her dusky plumes upon his brow ; The dogs yelp'd at him as he pass'd along ; > < And many a passer-by avoided him , As though his presence were a deadly plague . Poor wretched man l—an outcast from mankind ' / . — ***
„ , „ . »„ .. , i Torn from the sympathies that sweeten life , -Even denied communion with the dead , And spurn'd away from its last resting-place ;—I felt how utterly unbless'd his heart , And bent my way resolving to assuage ,
If but with kindly tones , the bitterness That wrung his bosom e ' en to agony . There is a charm in pity!—the mild look , The sympathizing sigh , the soften'd voice—( The heart ' s deep feeling language cannot sound )—
Convey a blessing more approved than gold ? . That poor , emaciated , woe-struck man , Possess'd as mild a heart , as pure a soul , As ever thruTd with love , or hoped for bliss . Dissever'd from his home in early life , He left an aged mother , orphan else ,
To tread the camp , and combat in the field . Wounded and weary in a sultry clime , Where sickness wrought what valour had outbraved , Long while suspended on the verge of time , He fought with death , and struggled back to life .
To live a blighted , wasted , wand ' ring thing ; And yet not all unbless'd he lived ; oh , no ! " There is another and a better world \" Compassion prompted the inspiring truth ;
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
A Brother In Adversity.
A BROTHER IN ADVERSITY .
There pass'd along the churchyard path a man Whose meagre , pallid looks bespoke his woe ; And he had come to seek a kindred ' s grave . Not long his search ; his tatter'd uncouth garb Was deem'd a profanation to the place Where gilded marble told the tale of death :
The officious beadle turned him from the gate , Met his subdued rebuke with threat ' ning sounds Of vagrancy and stocks , and bade him go . He turn ed away with slow and devious steps , Wrapt in the gloom of his own solitude :
Despair sat cow e ring in his hollow eye , And spread her dusky plumes upon his brow ; The dogs yelp'd at him as he pass'd along ; > < And many a passer-by avoided him , As though his presence were a deadly plague . Poor wretched man l—an outcast from mankind ' / . — ***
„ , „ . »„ .. , i Torn from the sympathies that sweeten life , -Even denied communion with the dead , And spurn'd away from its last resting-place ;—I felt how utterly unbless'd his heart , And bent my way resolving to assuage ,
If but with kindly tones , the bitterness That wrung his bosom e ' en to agony . There is a charm in pity!—the mild look , The sympathizing sigh , the soften'd voice—( The heart ' s deep feeling language cannot sound )—
Convey a blessing more approved than gold ? . That poor , emaciated , woe-struck man , Possess'd as mild a heart , as pure a soul , As ever thruTd with love , or hoped for bliss . Dissever'd from his home in early life , He left an aged mother , orphan else ,
To tread the camp , and combat in the field . Wounded and weary in a sultry clime , Where sickness wrought what valour had outbraved , Long while suspended on the verge of time , He fought with death , and struggled back to life .
To live a blighted , wasted , wand ' ring thing ; And yet not all unbless'd he lived ; oh , no ! " There is another and a better world \" Compassion prompted the inspiring truth ;