‘Of earth’s fairest scene, blent with her fairest daughter.’
‘Bravo! For what fair lady on your native mountains did you frame that compliment twenty years ago?’
‘Madam!’
‘Well?’
‘It is time to return.’
G. P. T.
THE RUINS OF BURNSIDE.
Sadly, amid this once delightful plain,
Stern ruin broods o’er crumbling porch and wall,