To me you leave it, do you? to decide
Where we shall go? Then hear the voice of wisdom:
The mountain air is good, I love the mountains;
And the sea air is good, I love the sea;
But if you two prefer the mountain air,--
Go to the mountains. On the contrary,--"
"She's neutral!" cried the father; "what a dodger
This little girl has grown! Come, now, I'll cast
Into the scale my sword, and say we'll go
To old Cape Ann. Does any slave object?
None. 'Tis a special edict. Pass the peas.
Our rendezvous shall be off Eastern Point.
There shall our Linda try the oar again."

Dinner was ended, and the gas was lit,
And The Day's last edition had been put
Into his hand to read, when suddenly
Turning to Mary, with a sigh he said:
"Kenrick, I see, is dead--Kenrick, our friend.
'Died in Chicago on the seventh instant,--
Leaves an estate valued at seven millions.'"
"Indeed! our faithful Kenrick--is he dead?
Leaves he a wife?"--"Probably not, my dear;
Three months ago he was a single man;
I had a letter from him, begging me,
If I lacked funds at any time to draw
On him, and not be modest in my draft."
"But that was generous; what did you reply?"
"I thanked him for his love, and promised him
He should be first to hear of wants of mine.
Now let us to the music-room adjourn,
And hear what will not jar with our regrets."
They went; and Mary mother played and sang;
Played the 'Dead March in Saul' and sang 'Old Hundred,'
'Come, ye Disconsolate,' 'When thee I seek'--
And finally these unfamiliar words:--

I.

O, give me one breath from that land--
The land to which all of us go!
Even now, O my soul! art thou fanned
By the breezes that over it blow.

II.

By the breezes that over it blow!
Though far from the knowledge of sense,
The shore of that land thou dost know--
There soon wilt thou go with me hence.

III.

There soon wilt thou go with me hence--
But where, O my soul! where to be?
In that region, that region immense,
The loved and the lost shall we see?

IV.

The loved and the lost shall we see!
For Love all it loves shall make near;
Type and outcome of Love shall it be--
Our home in that infinite sphere!

A day's excursion to a favorite spot--
Choice nook among the choicest of Long Island,
(Paradise Found, he called it playfully)--
Had of