Songs, like sounds that ’mid strings stray,

Fill this breast of mine,

Smiling round my lips they play,

In my eyes they shine!

A LITTLE PICTURE.
AFTER THE PROCLAMATION OF THE 19TH FEB., 1861, FREEING THE SERFS.

See, in peasant’s cottage, flickering

Shines a little fire,

Where, around a little maiden,

Draws a circle nigher.

And from word to word her finger