Democratic Sentinel, Volume 1, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1877 — NIGHTWATCIIES. [ARTICLE]

NIGHTWATCIIES.

While tho alow clock, as they were miser's gold. Counts and recounts the mornward steps of Time, The darkness thrills with conscience of each crime By Death committed, daily grown more bold ; Ojice more the list of all my wrongs is told, And ghostly handß stretch to me from my prime Helpless farcwoJs, as from an alien clime; For each new loss redoubles all the old ; This morn’t was May ; the blossoms were astir With southern wind; but now the bows are bent With snow instead of birds, and all things freeze ; How much of all my past is dumb with her, Aud, of my future, too, for with her went Half of that world I ever cared to please ! —Janie* Uunnell Lowell, in July Atlantic.