SERENADE.

"O lady, in thy waking glance

There lurked a wondrous spell,

To hold young Cupid in thine eye

As in a prison cell.

"And now, the god of Slumber finds

Thy drooping lids so fair,

He makes of them his chosen couch

And dwells forever there."

As the last note of the singer fainted into the eternity of lost sounds, I looked at the Conservative Kentucky chap, my boy, and beheld that his eyes were suffused with the tears of an exquisite sensibility.