Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1880 — Old Love Letters. [ARTICLE]

Old Love Letters.

Only a bundle'of old yellowed papers tied together with a faded ribbon, these are all that may be left to remind the gray-haired creature that tearfully bends over them of one on whom the grassy sod may have moulded for vears, or whose affections trifled with by her, have found a peaceful dwelling place-in a more constant heart. This tear-stained packet is all that connects Irer present with the past, and as she pores over its contents, the frosty clasp of vears is relaxed before the burning word of love, only to be clenched tighter as stern realities now draw the curtain of regret before all the alluring promises of the long ago. From these u<Ted lines, the chord of memory runß back to the time when they grew fresh and glossy beneath the* writer’s hand, mute messengem from the burning heart that breathed its love upon the page. But why touch the chord when every note awakens a longing that can never be gratified, for who can recall an echo from the past? Fold them up carefully, they are the tomb of your own dead hopes, mouldering slowly into nothingness. Peace, peace to the ashes)