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from it ; but it had preserved delicacy in the meats, and cleanliness 

 in the mode of serving them. As we endeavoured to omit nothing 

 that friendship and hospitality required of us, so were we successful 

 enough to see our guests sensible of, and thankful for, our efforts to 

 please them. 



WOMAN'S EYES. 



% the Author of" Songs of Switzerland, 1 ' $c. 



Away, away! I'll drink no more 



Let's join the minstrel throng ; 

 Away, where voice and lute outpour 



The dulcet tide of song. 

 But let it be where Beauty's bower 



Its sweetest theme supplies ; 

 Song loses half its magic power 



Unblest by Woman's eyes. 



The warrior's lance, the poet's pen, 



May win immortal fame ; 

 As ocean cave and mountain glen 



Are taught each glorious name. 

 Yet is there still than fame, perchance, 



A prouder, richer prize ; 

 Who values not the sunny glance 



Whose home is Woman's eyes? 



There is an hour when words are vain, 



An hour twice known to none; 

 It is when hearts, that once were twain, 



First feel they are but one. 

 E'en then when sense appeals to sense, 



And passion speech denies; 

 What then is Love's best eloquence ? 



'Tis that of Woman's eyes ! 



I've drained the cup on Rhine's proud hills, 



I've drank, Garonne, to thee ; 

 Where laugh the snow-alps' thousand rills, 



I've quaiPd to liberty. 

 But oh ! of all the bacchant stores, 



Garonne or Rhine supplies, 

 Give me the cup that, mantling up, 



Is drained to Woman's eyes. 



July 21st, 1835. H. B. 



