LE FOLLET

Anaïs Toudouze

LE FOLLET

PARIS, Boulevart St. Martin, 61

Robes de Camille

Dentelles de Violard, r. Choiseul, 2bis—Fleurs de Chagot ainé, r. Richelieu, 81;

Eventail de Vagneur Dupré, r. de la Paix, 19.

Graham’s Magazine


WHAT’S A TEAR?

A BALLAD.

SUNG BY MRS. SEGUIN,

COMPOSED BY

M. W. BALFE.

Presented By GEORGE WILLIG, No. 171 Chestnut St., Philadelphia.

What’s a tear? Mother dear!

Look not thou in sorrow!

As at dawn, from the thorn,

Falls the dew my Mother,

Let this grief find relief,

I’ll not weep tomorrow!

His I’ll be, none shall see

How I love another,

How I love,—love another!

SECOND VERSE.

As the rose, while it blows,

Hidden canker weareth;

Sigh shall ne’er whisper here,

How this heart despaireth:

What’s a tear? Mother dear!

His I’ll be, Oh Mother!

Though I die, since on high

I may love another.

How I love another.


Transcriber’s Notes:

Archaic spellings and hyphenation have been retained as well as some spellings peculiar to Graham’s. Punctuation has been corrected without note. Other errors have been corrected as noted below. For illustrations, some caption text may be missing or incomplete due to condition of the originals used for preparation of the ebook.

page iii, Story. Lydia Jane ==> Story. [By] Lydia Jane

page 1, Rensellaer who commanded, ==> [Rensselaer] who commanded,

page 2, Coffin, an aid of ==> Coffin, an [aide] of

page 2, escape occured to ==> escape [occurred] to

page 2, promoted) and a gallant ==> promoted)

page 2, serve as marines. ==> serve as [marine].

page 4, proceeded to Fort Levenworth ==> proceeded to Fort [Leavenworth]

page 6, accompanied the cortegé ==> accompanied the [cortège]

page 15, his griping fingers, ==> his [gripping] fingers,

page 24, them pleasant excursions ==> them [on] pleasant excursions

page 29, blood tinging its ==> blood [tingeing] its

page 35, my tiny bark, unguided ==> my tiny [barque], unguided

page 41, varient circumstances ==> [variant] circumstances

page 43, desire ought but that ==> desire [aught] but that

page 45, sort of wrapt awe ==> sort of [rapt] awe

page 51, wordly prosperity could ==> [worldly] prosperity could

page 60, heartless coquetery? Or ==> heartless [coquetry]? Or

page 61, concering it. There ==> [concerning] it. There

page 65, John their confident ==> John their [confidant]

page 65, irruption of Vesuvius ==> [eruption] of Vesuvius

page 66, kissed him affectionatly ==> kissed him [affectionately]

page 68, confident of his sorrows ==> [confidant] of his sorrows

page 68, by some occurences ==> by some [occurrences]

page 68, (how appaling that ==> (how [appalling] that

page 70, “mallability of metals,” ==> “[malleability] of metals,”

page 70, propotion to the chances ==> [proportion] to the chances