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disclosing heaven;
Round us the lovely, mirthful troop

Of children came--yet still to me
The loveliest--merriest of the group

The happy mother seemed to be!
Mine, by the bonds that bind us
more
Than all the oaths the priest before;
Mine, by the concord of
content,
When heart with heart is music-blent;
When, as sweet

sounds in unison,
Two lives harmonious melt in one!

When--sudden (O the villain!)--came
Upon the scene a mind
profound!--
A bel esprit, who whispered "Fame,"
And shook my
card-house to the ground.
What have I now instead of all
The Eden lost of hearth and hall?

What comforts for the heaven bereft?
What of the younger angel's left?

A sort of intellectual mule,
Man's stubborn mind in woman's shape,

Too hard to love, too frail to rule--
A sage engrafted on an ape!

To what she calls the realm of mind,
She leaves that throne, her sex,
to crawl,
The cestus and the charm resigned--
A public
gaping-show to all!
She blots from beauty's golden book
A name
'mid nature's choicest few,
To gain the glory of a nook
In Doctor
Dunderhead's Review.
WRITTEN IN A YOUNG LADY'S ALBUM.
Sweet friend, the world, like some fair infant blessed, Radiant with
sportive grace, around thee plays;
Yet 'tis not as depicted in thy
breast--
Not as within thy soul's fair glass, its rays
Are mirrored.
The respectful fealty
That my heart's nobleness hath won for thee,

The miracles thou workest everywhere,
The charms thy being to this
life first lent,--
To it, mere charms to reckon thou'rt content,
To us,
they seem humanity so fair.
The witchery sweet of ne'er-polluted
youth,
The talisman of innocence and truth--
Him I would see, who
these to scorn can dare!
Thou revellest joyously in telling o'er
The
blooming flowers that round thy path are strown,-- The glad, whom
thou hast made so evermore,--
The souls that thou hast conquered for
thine own.
In thy deceit so blissful be thou glad!
Ne'er let a waking
disenchantment sad
Hurl thee despairing from thy dream's proud
flight!
Like the fair flowerets that thy beds perfume,

Observe them,
but ne'er touch them as they bloom,--
Plant them, but only for the
distant sight.
Created only to enchant the eye,
In faded beauty at thy
feet they'll lie,
The nearer thee, the nearer their long night!

FOOTNOTES:
[9] This concluding and fine strophe is omitted in the later editions
of Schiller's "Poems."
[10] Hercules who recovered from the Shades Alcestis, after she had
given her own life to save her husband, Admetus. Alcestis, in the hands
of Euripides (that woman-hater as he is called!) becomes the loveliest
female creation in the Greek drama.
[11] i. e. Castor and Pollux are transferred to the stars, Hercules to
Olympus, for their deeds on earth.
[12] Carlyle's Miscellanies, vol. iii, p. 47.
[13] Literally "Nierensteiner,"--a wine not much known in England,
and scarcely--according to our experience--worth the regrets of its
respectable owner.
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