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Lead her from the festive boards,
Point her to the starry skies,
Guard her by your faithful words,
Pure from courtship's flatteries.

By your truth she shall be true,—
Ever true, as wives of yore;
And her Yes, once said to you,

Shall be Yes forevermore.

-Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

NEATNESS.

I love to see thy gentle hand
Dispose, with modest grace,

The household things around thy home,
And "each thing in its place."

And then thy own trim, modest form

Is always neatly clad;

Thou sure wilt make the tidiest wife
That ever husband had.

No costly splendors needest thou,
To make thy home look bright;
For neatness on the humblest spot
Can shed a sunny light.

THE LARGESS OF THY LOVE.

The lark that nestles nearest earth
To heaven's gate nighest sings;
And, loving thee, my lowly life

Doth mount on lark-like wings.
Thine eyes are starry promises;
And affluent above

All measure, in its blessing, is
The largess of thy love.

Merry as laughter 'mong the hills,
Spring dances at my heart;
And at my wooing, Nature's soul
Into her face will start.

The queen-moon, in her starry bower,
Looks happier for our love;

A dewier splendor fills the flower,
And mellower coos the dove.

My heart may sometimes blind mine eyes
With utterance of tears-

Yet feels no pang for thee, beloved,

But all the more endears;

And if life comes with cross and care,
Unknown in years of yore,

I know thou'lt half the burden bear,

And I am strong once more.

LUCY.

Lucy is a golden girl;

-Gerald Massey.

But a man, a man, should woo her!

They who seek her shrink aback,

When they should, like storms, pursue her.

All her smiles are hid in light;

All her hair is lost in splendor; But she hath the eyes of Night, And a heart that's over-tender.

Yet, the foolish suitors fly

(Is't excess of dread or duty?) From the starlight of her eye, Leaving to neglect her beauty!

Men by fifty seasons taught

Leave her to a young beginner, Who, without a second thought,

Whispers, woos, and straight must win her.

Lucy is a golden girl!

Toast her in a goblet brimming!

May the man that wins her wear

On his heart the rose of women!

-Barry Cornwall.

CHERRY RIPE.

Cherry ripe, ripe, ripe! I cry,
Full and fair ones-come and buy!
If so be you ask me where

They do grow ?-I answer, There,
Where my Julia's lips do smile :
There's the land, or cherry-isle,
Whose plantations fully show
All the year where cherries grow.

-Robert Herrick.

ALEXIS CALLS ME CRUEL.

(FROM THE SPANISH OF IGLESIAS.) Alexis calls me cruel :

The rifted crags that hold
'The gathered ice of winter,
He says, are not more cold;

When even the very blossoms
Around the fountain's brim,
And forest walks, can witness
The love I bear to him.

I would that I could utter

My feelings without shame,
And tell him how I love him!
Nor wrong my virgin fame.

Alas! to seize the moment
When heart inclines to heart,
And press a suit with passion,
Is not a woman's part.

If man come not to gather

The roses where they stand, They fade among their foliage,They can not seek his hand.

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