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STRAWBERRY TREE. EsTEEM AND LOVE, 
ARBUTUS. 
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= See Fr Mies. 
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Never did captive with freer heart, 
ast off his chains of bon 
’Tis then the mind, from bondage free, 
And all its ay oe o’ er— 
Asserts its native 
And scorns ae fa y pans before. . . . Cartwright. 
ANSWER. 
Wretch that I 
How have I lost, O how! your former lov 
Why did dn Bs me hope to rise to as n on ! 
iar all I gai Virg. Geo. B. 4. 
O, were his senses false or true! 
Dream’ d he of death, or gee vow, 
Or is it all a vision now . Scott's Lady of the Lake. 
O, why is gentle love 
stranger to that mind, 
Which pity and esteem can move, 
Which can be just and kind 
Love is not love. 
When it is mingled with respects, that stand 
Aloof from the entire point 
Friendship, when we ask for love, is like the fra- 
grance of remote flowers, that faintly touches the senses ; 
or, like the beams of the chaste moon that give us light, 
but yield not warmth S. Johnson. 
I do love you more than words can wield the matter. 
* # S # s 
A love that makes breath poor, and speech unable. 
Shaks 
And long experience of your goodness— 
Confirmed and settled in adoring y 
Hana s Fatal Mistake. 
For all true love is grounded on esteem. . Buckingham. 
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or 
SpLenpor. 
To splendor only do we liv: 
Must pomp alone our paar = employ ? 
All, all that pomp and splendor give, 
Is dearly bought with love and joy! . 
th give happiness? look round and see 
What gay distress! what splendid misery ! 
I envy none their pageantry ¢ and show, 
I envy none the gilding of their wo 
. Cartwright. 
