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MRS. HEMANS AND L. E. L. 



"A touching and graceful compliment was once paid to 

 L. E. L. It was a tribute from America, sent from the 

 far-off banks of the Ohio a curious species of the Michigan 

 rose, accompanied by a prayer that she would plant it on 

 the grave of Mrs. Hemans. To no hand could it have 

 been more appropriately transmitted, than to the hand 

 which wrote so reverently and rapturously of that gifted 

 woman." LIFE AND LITERARY REMAINS OF L. E. L. 



The author of the above work, LAMAN BLANCHARD, in 

 the introduction, mentions a very beautiful expression of 

 L. E. L., when writing of a great author, lately dead : 

 " I almost fear to praise such a man ; but comfort myself 

 with thinking that though few can raise the carved marble 

 over a great author's remains, all may throw a flower on 

 his grave." How touchingly beautiful are L. E. L/s 

 Stanzas on the Death of Mrs. Hemans; well may she 

 repeat from this lamented authoress* " Lays of Many 

 Lands," " The rose, the glorious rose, is gone," and 

 continue : 



66 Bring flowers to crown the cup and lute 

 Bring flowers the bride is near ; 



Bring flowers to soothe the captive's cell, 

 Bring flowers to strew the bier ! 



