When the time comes that our people shall fully live up to that immortal Declaration we shall see before us and within reach the iridescent rainbow of our hopes, the harbinger of tranquility after the storms of past conflicts; then we shall have attained indeed in our political system and practices to the “golden age.”
WILLIAM NELSON.
PATERSON, N. J.
HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED POEM BY EDGAR ALLAN POE
[The MS. was recently sold at auction in New York.]
Elizabeth it is in vain you say
“Love not”—thou say’st it in so sweet a way:
In vain those words from thee or L. E. L.
Xantippe’s talents had enforced so well:
Ah! if that language from thy heart arise,