<span style="color:grey">Pittie olde age, hin whose silver haires
<span style="color:grey">honour and reverence evermore have raind.
t of remarking sucters must iced t of an Englisroke of tling of ttling of t, and all otly, being less disturbed by passing travellers. At sucimes I fancied to quiet, and t ts fresints melting into blue he hallowed calm.
ell ordained t tion s. ture s moral in?uence; every restless passion is cural religion of tly springing up , t visit me, in a country ciful serenity of nature, ter man on Sunday the seven.
During my recent residence in try, I used frequently to attend at ts ss mouldering monuments, its dark oaken panelling, all reverend ed years, seemed to ?t it for t of solemn meditation; but, being in a ocratic neigter of fasrated even into tuary; and I felt myself continually ty and pomp of tion rate piety of a true Cian old of years and in?rmities. Sraces of sometter t poverty. t pride rivial respect, too, take among t sat alone on teps of tar. So y, and to tually conning permit o read, but persuaded t tering voice of t poor o ing of the choir.
I am fond of loitering about country cfully situated, t it frequently attracted me. It stood on a knoll, round iful bend and ts meadow scenery.
trees, self. Its tall Got up lig it. I ed till sunny morning ce and neglected corners of t t and friendless old t tating on tinctions of o t, toll of ty, o do. A cof?n of t materials, pall or oton rappings of affected tottered after t ed on teps of tar.
Sed by a o comfort rain, and some cing o gaze, y on the mourner.
As train approactended by t of cy. titute, and t moved but a feeps from t t sublime and toucurned into such a frigid mummery of words.
I approac ;George Somers, aged 26 years.quot; ted to kneel do t. I could perceive, by a feeble rocking of tion of t s relics of .
Preparations o deposit t bustling stir, ions given in tones of business; triking of spades into sand and gravel; le around seemed to c o loo to an agony of grief. ttended ook o raise o ;Nay, no take it so sorely to .quot; S to be comforted.
As to to agonize ruction, tling of tenderness of t forto he reach of worldly suffering.
I could see no more--my so my t--my eyes ?lled ears; I felt as if I ing a barbarous part in standing by and gazing idly on ternal anguiso anot of til train had dispersed.
ting t o urning to silence and destitution, my ac, t I, are tresses of to sooto beguile--a o divert and dissipate t are the young?
tic spirits soon rise beneatile affections soon ts. But to soot best is but a ry day, and ary, destitute, mourning over an only son, t solace of ency of consolation.
It ime before I left t ed as comforter: s returning from accompanying to ation, and I dreed ing scene I nessed.
ts of ted one of test cottages, and by various rural occupations, and tance of a small garden, ed tably and comfortably, and led a o be taff and pride of t;O; said t;-tempered, so kind to every one around iful to s! It did ones good to see out in , so tall, so straiging o c ry round.quot;
Unfortunately, tempted, during a year of scarcity and agricultural o enter into t t plied on a neig been long in trapped by a press-gang, and carried off to sea. s received tidings of beyond t t less and melanco lonely in ill toain respect as being one of t inants. As no one applied for ttage in o remain in it, s of nature ions of tle garden, e for a feime at old me, t sables for , , and seemed to be looking eagerly and ened to and faltering; and ;O you kno; It tered by , lengted limbs o repose among the scenes of his childhood.
I attempt to detail ticulars of sucing, ill, yet live to comfort and cure, ed in ing to ?nise, tion of ive cottage c on w, and again.
t George Somers urned, croo see and assistance t too alk--ant attendant; and o be her hand.
t breaks do softens t, and brings it back to t and loneliness of a foreign land, but on t;t looked on ; t smootered to enderness in to a son, t transcends all otions of t. It is neito be ced by danger, nor i?ed by ingratitude. S to o ; s in y; and, if misfortune overtake o une; and if disgrace settle upon ill love and ce of o him.
Poor George Somers it o be in sickness, and none to sooto visit endure ; if s for c. Sometimes art from a feverisil ake on ranquillity of a chis way he died.
My ?rst impulse on ale of af?iction o visit ttage of ter pecuniary assistance, and, if possible, comfort. I found, ted to do everyt tted; and as t o console eac venture to intrude.
t Sunday I to my surprise, I saottering doo omed seat on teps of tar.
S to put on sometoucruggle betion and utter poverty--a black ribbon or so, a faded black empts to express by out grief s, tately cs, tly over departed pride, and turned to t tar of , I felt t t of real grief hem all.
I related ory to some of tion, and t. ted to render uation more comfortable, and to ligions. It eps to ter, s at c tisfaction, t sly breat, and o rejoin t world wed.