As for Helen, the cloud which shadowed her earlier years has quite disappeared; and in the affection of the home circle, to which her many good qualities endear her, she finds all that can make life pleasant and agreeable.
GERALDINE.
When the summer, crowned with blossoms,
Robes with beauty all the trees,
And, with pérfumed breath and fragrant,
Loads the idly-floating breeze,
Then, with cheerful steps and airy,
O’er the fields with flowers upspringing,