BY LAMAN BLANCHARD.

"I am not what I am."—Iago.

I.

The Passions, in festival meeting,

I saw seated round, in a dream;

And vow, by my hatred of cheating,

The Passions are not what they seem.

There's mirth under faces the gravest,

There's woe under visages droll;

There's fear in the breast of the bravest,