Call me Daphne, call me Chloris,

Call me Lalage or Doris,

Only, only call me thine.”

Samuel T. Coleridge.

THE EXCHANGE

WE pledged our hearts, my love and I,—

I in my arms the maiden clasping:

I could not tell the reason why,

But oh! I trembled like an aspen.

Her father’s love she bade me gain;