ke
That makes men dust before they hear the sound--
A shaft that leaves dark venom in the wound--
A frost that all the buds of manhood nips--
A sea of passion in which true love's drowned--
A demon strangling virtue in his grips--
A day when reason's son is quenched in dread eclipse.

True gentle love is like the summer dew,
Which falls around when all is still and hush--
And falls unseen until its bright drops strew
With odours, herb and flower, and bank, and bush
O love, when womanhood is in the flush,
And man's a young and an unspotted thing!
His first breathed word and her half conscious blush,
Are fair us light in heaven, or flowers in spring--
The first hour of true love is worth our worshipping.

LOVE OF COUNTRY.

"I would not leave old Scotland's mountain gray,
Her hills, her cots, her halls, her groves of pine,
Dark though they be: yon glen, yon broomy brae,
Yon wild fox cleugh, yon eagle cliffs outline
An hour like this--this white right-hand of thine,
And of thy dark eyes such a gracious glance,
As I got now, for all beyond the line,
And all the glory gained by sword or lance,
In gallant England, Spain, or olive vales of France."

* * * * *

_Printed and Published by J. LIMBIRD, 143, Strand. (near Somerset
House,) London; sold by ERNEST FLEISCHER, 626, New Market, Leipsic;
G.G. BENNIS, 55, Rue Neuve, St. Augustin, Paris, and by all Newsmen
and Booksellers._

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