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Woman away and weep no more,

Can the dead give you love for love-
Can the grave hear? His course was o'er,
The spirit wing'd its way above.
Wilt thou for dust and ashes weep?

Away; thy husband lies not here.
Look to yon heaven! If love is deep
On earth-'tis tenfold deeper there.

ORIGINAL POETRY.

STANZAS

O'er whom mildly he mov'd with such dignified splendor,

That envy was won to the feeling of love. That mind which cou'd scatter the darkness profoundest;

Which blaz'd amid suns with a sovereign ray; Whose towerings, whose orbit no limit e'er bounded,

Has shed its last light! fled for ever away!

O reason! of all man's distinctions the proudest,
How frail is thy tenure when feeling com
mands;

The deep voice of nature is ever the loudest,
And reason resigns what affection demands.

On hearing a Lady sing" Angels ever bright and He has burst from the clay that but shackl'd his

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spirit,

'Twas a moment of darkness, but pass'd is the

gloom;

He has soar'd to the bliss he was form'd to inherit,
And left his bright mem'ry the world to illume.

VALENTINE'S EVE.

BY MRS. M'MULLAN.

AWAKE no sigh, record no pain,
But sound the lyre's convivial strain,
And summon all the smiling train

To hail this blissful ear,

To care a truce—to grief a pause,
To friendship fill the sparkling vase,
And write in mem'ry's code of laws

What sages may believe.

That whatsoe'er the schools reveal,
There's not one pang pure hearts may feel,
Which love and friendship cannot heal,
And music sooth to peace.
Remembrance needs no banner'd wall,
Affection asks not lordly hall,
Whilst faithful love can joys recall

Till time's swift sands may cease.
Though keen distrust bid misers fear
To let their shining stores appear-
Though eyes that ne'er knew feeling's tear
Demand their selfish joys.
Though cold by pocrisy pretends
To hail her dear five hundred friends,
And many a gilded placard sends,
And sports her thousand toys.

Go, search the records of the heart,
Go, trace what scenes true bliss impart,
Extend the view, observe the chart,

Life's shadows to beguile.

The board where social virtues meet,
The hearth where kindred friendly greet-
'Tis there that happiness complete
Bestows her rapt'rous smile.

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