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Wall Flower. 
FIDELITY IN ADVERSITY, 
Fondly I wreathed his victor. brow : 
Shall I in grief forsake him now? 
Never. ‘The ills that round him wait 
But bind me closer to his fate. 
In winter’s cold, in summer’s heat, 
Long as the pulse of life may beat, 
Shall Ellen at Alonzo’s side, 
By day, by night, the wanderer guide 3 
On mine, his wearied brow shall rest, 
And sweet his sleep on Ellen’s breast. 
WILuiAm SoTtausy 
She stems the wave, unshrinking meets the storm, 
And wears his guardian angel’s earthly form ! 
And if she cannot check the tempest’s course, 
She points a shelter from its >whelmin g force! 
When envy’s sneer would coldly blight his name, 
And busy tongues are sporting with his fame, 
Who solves each doubt, — clears every mist away, 
And makes him radiant in the face of day ? 
She who would peril fortune, fame, and life, 
For man, the ingrate, — the devoted wife. 
Mrs. C. B. Wiuson. 


