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DANDELION. 
ee ee In crowds around thee gaze the admiring swains. 
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ss ‘The idlers who around thee press, 
With careless praise will dwell. 
Upon that face, whose loveliness 
My tongue could never tell. 
** Bach er look, each winning smile, 
e loved so long, 
Will ger some trifling re Sina 
Or charm a heartl 
And gay will be the playful tone, 
As to the flattering voice thou respondest ; 
But what is the praise of the cold and unknown, 
To the tender blame of the fondest John Ei 
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SWEETS TO THE SWEET. Such fragrance in the bosom lies 
Of her whom I adore! 
‘Her air so modest—her aspect so meek, 
So simple—tho’ sweet—are her charms. id 
In simplicity’s array 
She’s lovely as this sweet opening flower, 
Shrinking from the gaze of day. 
: then, the heart alarming, 
all resistless charming, 
In ape 8 ade fetters, she chains the willing soul. 
Burns 
And O! the rapture of that down-cast eye, 
So kind—yet beautifully shy ‘ont, 
A flame like mine, can never die, 
While ae so bright as thine 
So heavenly th 
And fill the oa divine Song, Pinky House. 
—_——s 
A SERENADE, Where should this music be? i’ the air or the earth? 
Shaks. 
’Twas musical, but sadly sweet, 
Such as when winds and harp-strings meet... Byron. 
A soft and eee ake sound 2 
like a of rich distilled perfames, 
And stole upon wd ati 
How sweetly did they float upon the — 
through the empty vaulted 
fall smoothing the raven-down 
Of darkness, till it smiled 
was all ear, 
And took in strains that might create a soul 
Under the ribs of death 
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