Her laughter is hushed in a tumult of sighs:

Those pretty, plump fingers, red-stained to the tips,

All tremble, while pouting are rosy-red lips.

Then the bard whispers low, 'neath the tremulous lime,

"Lips sweeter than fruit are in strawberry time!"


[NUMBER ONE.]

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY.

"No. 1," in a collection of one thousand five hundred and eighty-three works of art, at the Exhibition of the Royal Academy.