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Trust not a man: we are by nature false, Dissembling, subtle, cruel and inconstant;

MOTHER-LOVE.

The only love which, on this teeming earth,

When a man talks of love, with caution hear Asks no return for passion's wayward birth.

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The Dream.

HON. MRS. NORTON.

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P. J. BAILEY.

COMPLETION.

Man is but half without woman; and As do idolaters their heavenly gods, We deify the things that we adore.

Festus.

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"Believe not what the laudmen say

Who tempt with doubts thy constant mind: They'll tell thee, sailors, when away,

In every port a mistress find:

Yes, yes, believe them when they tell thee so,
For Thou art present wheresoe'er I go.

"If to fair India's coast we sail,

Thy eyes are seen in diamonds bright,
Thy breath is Africa's spicy gale,

Thy skin is ivory so white.
Thus every beauteous object that I view
Wakes in my soul some charm of lovely Sue.

"Though battle call me from thy arms,

Let not my pretty Susan mourn ;
Though cannons roar, yet safe from harms
William shall to his dear return.

Love turns aside the balls that round me fly,
Lest precious tears should drop from Susan's eye."

The boatswain gave the dreadful word,
The sails their swelling bosom spread;

No longer must she stay aboard:

They kissed, she sighed, he hung his head. Her lessening boat unwilling rows to land; Adieu!" she cried; and waved her lily hand.

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JOHN GAY.

BLACK-EYED SUSAN.

ALL in the Downs the fleet was moored,
The streamers waving in the wind,
When black-eyed Susan came aboard;

"O, where shall I my true-love find? Tell me, ye jovial sailors, tell me true

If my sweet William sails among the crew."

William, who high upon the yard

Rocked with the billow to and fro, Soon as her well-known voice he heard He sighed, and cast his eyes below:

The cord slides swiftly through his glowing hands,

And quick as lightning on the deck he stands.

So the sweet lark, high poised in air,
Shuts close his pinions to his breast
If chance his mate's shrill call he hear,
And drops at once into her nest :-
The noblest captain in the British fleet
Might envy William's lip those kisses sweet.

"O Susan, Susan, lovely dear,

My vows shall ever true remain;
Let me kiss off that falling tear;
We only part to meet again.

Change as ye list, ye winds; my heart shall be
The faithful compass that still points to thee.

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My mother listening to my sleep

The ocean with the morrow light

Will be both blue and calm;

Heard nothing but a sigh at night,

And the billow will embrace thee with a kiss as The short sigh rippling on the deep,

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When hearts run out of breath and sight

Of men, to God's clear light.

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When others named thee, thought thy brows
Were straight, thy smile was tender, .. 'Here
He comes between the vineyard-rows!"
I said not "Ay," - nor waited, Dear,
To feel thee step too near.

I left such things to bolder girls,
Olivia or Clotilda. Nay,

When that Clotilda through her curls
Held both thine eyes in hers one day,
I marvelled, let me say.

I could not try the woman's trick:
Between us straightway fell the blush
Which kept me separate, blind, and sick.
A wind came with thee in a flush,
As blown through Horeb's bush.

But now that Italy invokes

Her young men to go forth and chase
The foe or perish, - nothing chokes

My voice, or drives me from the place :
I look thee in the face.

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