ALONE.
BY MARION HARLAND,
OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA.
"Through long, long years, to seek, to strive, to yearn
For human love,—and never quench that thirst;
To pour the soul out winning no return—
O'er fragile idols, by delusions nursed,—
On things that fail us, reed by reed, to lean,
To mourn the changed, the far-away, the dead,
To send our troubled spirits through the unseen
Intensely questioning for treasures fled."
Hemans.
NINETEENTH THOUSAND.
NEW YORK:
J. C. DERBY, 119 NASSAU STREET.
BOSTON: PHILLIPS, SAMPSON & CO.
CINCINNATI: H. W. DERBY.
1856.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1854, by
A. MORRIS,
In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Eastern District of Virginia.