“Your motives were kind and good, Alice; and though it has been to you a severe lesson in the deceitfulness of the world, and to me a still more painful one in the deceitfulness of my own heart, yet, I trust, that to both of us it may not be without its salutary influences.”


TO HELEN IN HEAVEN.

I think of thee by night, love,

In visions of the skies,

When glories meet the sight, love,

That dazzle mortal eyes—

I think a waving cloud, love,

A golden cloud I see,

A half transparent shroud, love,