RECLUSE. 
You subject y cmeal to solitariness, that sly enemy that 
oth most separate a man from well doing, Sidney. 
In 
What happiness? Wh o can enjoy alon 
Or, if enjoying, what prorat find? Milton. 
Alone, alone! How drear it is 
Always to be alone! ...... = ecu Willis. 
With none to bless us, none whom we car bless, 
None, that with kindred consciousness endued, 
If we were not, would seem to smile the less! 
This is to le ‘alone ;—this, this is solitude. . . Byron. 
And say, without our hopes, without our — 
aiden the home that plighted love endears. 
Without the smile from partial beauty won, 
! what were man ?—a world without a sun ! 
Campbell. 
Short retirement urges sweet return. ... Milton. 
MULLEIN. HAve 1 NoT SUFFERED THINGS Lovers, and madmen, have such seathing brains, 
TO BE FORGIVEN. Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend 
VERBASCUM. More than cool reason comprehends 
To nurse strange doubts, and groundless fears. 
Mrs. Barbauld. 
Se —— 
< She dreams of him that has forgot her love... . Shaks. 
Love positive. I court others in verse, but love thee in prose! 
They have my whimsies, but thou hast my heart. Prior. 
On your hand, that pure altar, I 
Though I’ve lo oked, and have liked, au have left— 
That I never have loved—till now. ... Mf. G. Lewis. 
By those tresses unconfined; 
Wooed by every SS Ga wind! 
By those lids whose jetty fringe 
Kiss thy soft cheek’s sioustng tinge ; 
y those wild eyes, like the roe, 
be: it is love—if thoughts of tenderness, 
Tried i in temptation, pear sae by distress, 
Unmoved by absence, firm in every clime, 
And oie more than all !—untired by time. ... Jd. 
ANSWER. 
The myrtle bough bids lovers live............ Scoft. 
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