A woman’s heart should be. In which alway

The cloudless heavens may smile, and gentlest ray

Of stars glide down, to emblem forth the sway

Of purity and truth, and happiness

Made up of innocence and loveliness

Of soul—so rarely found in this sad world of ours,

Where evil mars the good, and wastes divinest powers.


A TRAVELER’S STORY.

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