No more!

[387]Jamais, jamais, je ne serai aimé comme j’aime!” was a mournful expression of Madame de Staël’s.

THOUGHT FROM AN ITALIAN POET.

Where shall I find, in all this fleeting earth,

This world of changes and farewells, a friend

That will not fail me in his love and worth,

Tender and firm, and faithful to the end?

Far hath my spirit sought a place of rest—

Long on vain idols its devotion shed;

Some have forsaken, whom I loved the best,