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# Poems of Childhood/The Sugar-Plum Tree

New York, C. Scribner's Sons, pages 28–29
THE SUGAR-PLUM TREE
HAVE you ever heard of the Sugar-Plum Tree? 'Tis a marvel of great renown! It blooms on the shore of the Lollipop sea In the garden of Shut-Eye Town; The fruit that it bears is so wondrously sweet (As those who have tasted it say) That good little children have only to eat Of that fruit to be happy next day.
When you've got to the tree, you would have a hard time To capture the fruit which I sing; The tree is so tall that no person could climb To the boughs where the sugar-plums swing! But up in that tree sits a chocolate cat, And a gingerbread dog prowls below— And this is the way you contrive to get at Those sugar-plums tempting you so:
You say but the word to that gingerbread dog And he barks with such terrible zest That the chocolate cat is at once all agog, As her swelling proportions attest. ​And the chocolate cat goes cavorting around From this leafy limb unto that, And the sugar-plums tumble, of course, to the ground— Hurrah for that chocolate cat!
There are marshmallows, gumdrops, and peppermint canes, With stripings of scarlet or gold, And you carry away of the treasure that rains As much as your apron can hold! So come, little child, cuddle closer to me In your dainty white nightcap and gown, And I'll rock you away to that Sugar-Plum Tree In the garden of Shut-Eye Town.
The Sugar-plum Tree
# Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1833

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Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1833
compiled by Peter J. Bolton
Contents
* The Shamrock
* The Grandmother
* The Rose of Eden-Dale and Her Hothouse Flowers
# Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1836

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Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1836
compiled by Peter J. Bolton
Contents
* The Little Mountaineer
* The Lesson
# Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1837/Dry Feet

The plate, which shows a young girl carrying a dog over a streamlet, cannot at present be sourced.
WET FEET
Painted by Sir Joshua ReynoldsEngraved by C. Rolls
As F. J. Sypher comments, the artist shows the girl with ‘Wet Feet’, whereas, for Landon, the dog has ‘Dry Feet’.
Text transcribed from F. J. Sypher’s ‘Poems from Annuals’
DRY FEET
You do not like the streamlet,  That runs so clear and bright; I scarcely think it water,  It looks so much like light.
Some white, and others purple,  The pebbles glitter through; I can’t pick up those pebbles,  If I must carry you.
There are such lovely wild-flowers  Amid the tangled grass; The little deep-blue bird’s eye  Looks at me as I pass.
But they must stay ungathered,  Though the very air is sweet, Because my sad spoilt Fanchette  Dislikes to wet her feet,
Half laughing, half complaining  On went the dark-eyed girl, While the soft warm airs of summer  Played amid each bright brown curl.
The dog was carried over,  Her own feet wet and bare, But of that the little rustic  Took neither cold nor care.
’Twas a sweet and natural lesson  For woman, ay, or man, Of every slight disaster  To make the best you can.
# Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1832/The Evening Prayer

This poem is drawn from the review in The Literary Gazette, 8th October, 1831. It also should have an accompanying plate, "The Evening Prayer", by B. E. Duppa, engraved by John Bull.
THE EVENING PRAYER
"Alone, alone!—no other face
 Wears kindred smile, or kindred line;
And yet they say my mother's eyes—
 They say my father's brow is mine:
And either had rejoiced to see
 The other's likeness in my face,
But now it is a stranger's eye
 That finds some long-forgotten trace.
I heard them name my father's death,
 His home and tomb alike the wave;
And I was early taught to weep
 Beside my youthful mother's grave.
I wish I could recall one look—
 But only one familiar tone:
If I had aught of memory
 I should not feel so all alone.
My heart is gone beyond the grave,
 In search of love I cannot find,
Till I could fancy soothing words
 Are whispered by the evening wind.
I gaze upon the watching stars,  So clear, so beautiful above,
Till I could dream they look on me
 With something of an answering love.
My mother, does thy gentle eye
 Look from those distant stars on me!
Or does the wind at evening bear
 A message to thy child from thee?
Dost thou pine for me, as I pine
 Again a parent's love to share?
I often kneel beside thy grave
 And pray to be a sleeper there.
The vesper bell!—'tis eventide;
 I will not weep, but I will pray:
God of the fatherless, 'tis Thou
 Alone canst be the orphan's stay!
Earth's meanest flower, Heaven's mightiest star,  Are equal in their Maker's love,
And I can say, Thy will be done,
 With eyes that fix their hope above."
# Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1837

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Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1837
compiled by Peter J. Bolton
Contents
* The Watchful Friend
* Dry Feet
# Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1833/The Rose of Eden-Dale

* The Rose,
* of Edendale.
* Painted by R. RothwellEngraved by A. Duncan
THE ROSE OF EDEN-DALE AND HER HOTHOUSE FLOWERS.*
They were so beautiful this morn—
 The lily's graceful wand
Hung with small bells, as delicate
 As from a fairy's hand.
The Indian rose, so softly red,
 As if in coming here
It lost the radiance of the south,
 And caught a shade of fear.
The white geranium vein'd with pink,  Like that within the shell
Where, on a bed of their own hues,
 The pearls of ocean dwell.
But where is now the snowy white,
 And where the tender red?
How heavy over each dry stalk,
 Droops every languid head!
They are not worth my keeping now—
 She flung them on the ground—
Some strewed the earth, and some the wind
 Went scattering idly round.
She then thought of those flowers no more,
 But oft, in after-years,
When the young cheek was somewhat pale,
 And the eyes dim with tears—
Then she recalled the faded wreath
 Of other happier hours,
And felt love’s joy and hope had been  But only Hothouse Flowers. L. E. L.
LONDON:
J. MOYES, CASTLE STREET, LEICESTER SQUARE.
# Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1833/The Shamrock

* The Shamrock.
* Drawn by L. MasonEngraved by A. Revel
THE SHAMROCK.
BY L. E. L.
Hope, mirth, and love, these are the bonds
 That link them to each other—
Those fairy sisters who support
 Their little laughing brother.
Their eyes are filled with happiness,
 Each face is very fair,
And their bright heads—a day in June
 Has shed its sunshine there.
Raised as in triumph on their arms,
 The youngest one looks down—
He is a monarch absolute
 As ever wore a crown.
There's many a king in Europe now,
 With sceptre and with sword,
Whose regal will is far more curbed
 Than his—that infant lord.
Ah! other days will come than these,
 Such as time ever brings;
When fade the flowers beneath his feet,
 The sunshine from his wings!
When many a bitter thought is writ
 Within the altered mind,
The faithless friend, the hope betrayed,
 The look and word unkind.
But what hath pining discontent
 To do with this glad three?
Who are as glad as birds that sing
 Within a summer tree:
Or as the flowers that lift their heads
 Upon a sunny day—
So joyous in their own delight,
 So beautiful are they!
The image of a happy child
 Doth link itself with all
That natural loveliness, which least
 Reminds us of our fall.
Somewhat of angel purity,
 Somewhat of angel grace,
Ere longer years bring shade and soil,
 Are on a childish face.
Now farewell to the beautiful!
 May never future years
Throw paleness o'er each cheek of rose,
 Or fill those eyes with tears!
May smiles still linger round each lip,
 And sunshine on each brow,
And many summers find each face
 As fair and glad as now!
# Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1836/The Lesson

THE LESSON.
By L. E. L.
Come, dearest, to your lesson,
 You have so much to say,
One, two, three, four, five letters,
 Before you go to play.
There is "A" that stands for apple,
 You know our own old tree,
It is covered now with blossoms
 That shew where fruit will be.
There's "B" that stands for butterfly,
 But yesterday we caught
One whose wings with brown and crimson,
 And specks of gold were wrought.
There is "C" that stands for cowslip;
 When you have said them all
We will go into the meadow,
 And make a cowslip ball.
There's "D" that stands for darling;
 The prettiest in the row:
Who is his mother's darling—
 Who is he—do you know?
You say you'll be a sailor:
 How sorry you would be
Not to read your mother's letters,
 When far away at sea.
Ah! I see you'll be a scholar;
 You've said them rightly o'er:
There's a good child—and to-morrow
 You are to learn some more.
Come now into the garden,
 To the fruit and flowers away;
So well you've said your lesson,
 That you deserve to play.
# Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1833/The Grandmother

* The Grandmother.
* Painted by A. FrazerEngraved by T. S. Engleheart
THE GRANDMOTHER.
What care they that the winter-wind
 Is driving over the heath,
With a sky of murky clouds above,
 And the drifted snow beneath?
The day and its labour alike are done,
 And the fire is burning bright;
And that old dame hath tale and song
 Wherewith to while the night.
They are happy beside that lowly hearth;
 For by her love to that child,
That aged woman, 'mid care and grief,
 To existence is reconciled.
His father lived as a sailor lives,
 To and fro on the stormy wave;
But the wind arose one fearful night,
 And the sea was the tall ship's grave.
Tidings came of the vessel's loss,
 And his young wife pined away;—
She had known but a flower's fragile life,
 And she had a flower's decay.
But their mother thinks not now of the dead,
 Nor of her long despair;
For her heart is full of the joy of life,
 And the boy who is seated there.
His brow is glad, and his eyes are clear,
 And she sees in him revived
The buoyant mirth of those early years
 Which she has herself survived.
He is as her youth returned again—
 A hope bequeathed by the past;
And affection but rivets a tenderer bond,
 Because that bond is its last. L. E. L.
# Poems of Letitia Elizabeth Landon (L. E. L.) in The Juvenile Forget Me Not, 1836/The Little Mountaineer

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THE LITTLE MOUNTAINEER
Drawn by A ChisholmEngraved by W. Greatbach
THE LITTLE MOUNTAINEER.
By L. E. L.
Her naked feet are nothing loath
 To touch their mother earth;
The pebble and the flower have been
 Their comrades from their birth.
The wind is in her long fair hair,
 She bares her listening ear,
And questions if a storm be nigh—
 The little mountaineer.
The birds are sweeping through the sky,
 Their white wings bear away
The brightness of the morning time,
 The sunshine's lingering ray.
Like armies summoned by a king,
 The clouds come far and near;
They gather round her native hills—
 The little mountaineer.
She stands beside the ancient well
 That from the broken wall
Sings day and night the same sweet song
 In one low silvery fall.
She stands a lovely, lonely child
 Without a thought of fear;
The cave of nature is around
 The little mountaineer.
A pensiveness beyond its years
 Is in her childish grace;
For many lonely hours have given
 Their meaning to her face.
The mighty storms, the mighty hills,
 Have lent their solemn cheer;
A poet's world is in her heart—
 The little mountaineer.
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# Popular Science Monthly/Volume 37/August 1890/Correspondence

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THE PROHIBITION LAWS OF IOWA.
Editor Popular Science Monthly:
SIR: In the May (1890) number of the Monthly Dr. W. A. Hammond, in his article on Sumptuary Laws, makes statements with reference to the prohibitory liquor laws of Iowa which are not only misleading but incorrect.
It is not an offense under our law "for one person to ask another to take a drink." It is not contrary to law in Iowa to give intoxicating liquor to an adult person not intoxicated nor in the habit of becoming so, when such gift is made without any consideration being received or expected in return, and without subterfuge or attempt to evade the provisions of the code. The act of giving intoxicating liquors, except to minors or habitual drunkards, is not prohibited by statute, and the Supreme Court has decided that the simple act of giving is no offense (State vs. Hutchins, 74 Iowa Rep., p. 20); and so in the case supposed by the doctor there is neither a violation of the letter nor the spirit of the law.
It may be added, however, as pertinent to the point made by the doctor, that Iowans may legally obtain all the liquor they want by importation from other States; and that, notwithstanding the most stringent laws against its manufacture and sale within the State, it is not difficult to purchase any kind of liquor either by the drink or by the bottle; and that it is at least doubtful if the drink habit is decreasing.
* James H. Trewin.
* Lansing, Iowa, May 12, 1890.
EVIDENCES OF GLACIAL ACTION IN VIRGINIA.
Editor Popular Science Monthly:
Sir: The interesting article in your June number, by the Hon. David A. Wells, on evidences of glacial action in southeastern Connecticut, recalls to my recollection the fact of similar evidence in the State of Virginia. Slightly north of latitude 38°, in the extreme southeast corner of Orange County (my native county), on a farm—originally, and I presume still, known by the name of Wood Lawn, or the Minor Farm—are two large bowlders, similar to those described by Mr. Wells. One of these bowlders is split in half; one half retains an erect position, while the other lies prostrate, forming a large, flat table. I speak of them as they appeared many years ago, although I presume their appearance is the same to-day. There are other bowlders of a like character in that vicinity, and, if they were visited and described by one competent to do so, a very interesting article might be written, and perhaps prove a valuable addition to the science of glacial action.
* Francis Minor.
* St. Louis, June, 1890.
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# Pratt v. Fitzhugh/Opinion of the Court

* Court Documents
* Case Syllabus
* Opinion of the Court
United States Supreme Court
66 U.S. 271
Pratt v. Fitzhugh
Pratt, the plaintiff in error, obtained a decree in admiralty against the propeller Kentucky for a collision on Lake Erie. The defendants had given a bond as sureties for the discharge of the vessel from the attachment when first seized, and a summary decree was entered against them, according to the rules and practice in the District Court. Execution was issued, commanding the marshal to make the decree out of the goods and chattels, &c., of the defendants; and in default thereof, to arrest and keep them in custody till the moneys were paid, &c. The defendants were arrested and imprisoned under this process. Afterwards a writ of habeas corpus was issued by the Circuit Court for the northern district of New York, and upon a return of the marshal, setting forth the above facts, as furnishing the authority for the imprisonment, an order was entered discharging them from imprisonment, holding that, as the State of New York had abolished imprisonment for debt on contracts, the defendants could not be imprisoned within the acts of Congress of the 28th February, 1839, and 14th June, 1841.
The case is before us on a writ of error. A motion has been made to dismiss the case for want of jurisdiction.
The case is brought up under the 22d section of the judiciary act, which confines the writ of error to cases 'where the matter in dispute exceeds the sum or value of two thousand dollars, exclusive of costs.' This has always been held to mean a property value, and without the fact of value being shown on the record, or by evidence aliunde, the court has no jurisdiction to hear or re-examine the case. The cases of Weston vs. The City Council of South Carolina, (2 Peters, 449,) and Holmes vs. Jennison, (14 ib., 540,) referred to, were brought up from State courts under the 25th section of the judiciary act, in which case no value is required. We do not doubt but that the order discharging the defendants was a final one, and that the only objection to the jurisdiction is the one above stated.
Judgment dismissing the cause for want of jurisdiction.

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# Pratt v. Fitzhugh

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66 U.S. 271
Pratt v. Fitzhugh
Error to the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of New York.
In May, 1857, the plaintiff in error, Pratt, filed his libel in the District Court of the United States for the northern district of New York against the propeller Kentucky, her boats, &c., to recover damages caused by a collision with a vessel owned by him on Lake Erie. The Kentucky was seized on the 27th of May, and on the same day a bond for her release was executed by the defendants, as sureties for the claimant of the Kentucky, which bond was duly approved and the Kentucky was discharged. A recovery was had by plaintiff, and a decree perfected in his favor in May, 1859, for $21,581 28 against the claimant of the Kentucky, and Fitzhugh, Littlejohn, and Miller, his sureties. In July, 1859, execution issued commanding the marshal of the district to make the amount of the decree out of the goods and chattels of the defendants, and failing in this, to arrest and keep them until the moneys were paid. Under this process the defendants were imprisoned, but were discharged after a hearing upon habeas corpus by the Circuit Court of the United States for the northern district of New York, on the ground that as the law of the State had abolished imprisonment for debt on contracts, the defendants could not be imprisoned under the acts of Congress of 28th February, 1839, and 14th June, 1841. This writ of error was then taken by Pratt, the plaintiff below, and the question argued in this court was, whether, under the acts of Congress, the defendants were liable to imprisonment.
Upon this question the arguments were elaborate and full, but they are not given here because nothing was decided by this court except the question of jurisdiction.
Mr. Rogers, of New York, for plaintiff in error.
Mr. Grant, of New York, for defendants in error.
Mr. Justice NELSON.

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# Pratt v. Grand Trunk Railway Company

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95 U.S. 43
Pratt v. Grand Trunk Railway Company
ERROR to the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Michigan.
The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
Mr. William Jennison for the plaintiffs in error.
Mr. Isaac P. Christiancy, contra.
MR. JUSTICE HUNT delivered the opinion of the court.

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# Proclamation 6389

Delivered on 5 December 1991.
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation
1. Pursuant to section 504(a)(1) of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended (the 1974 Act) (19 U.S.C. 2464(a)(1), and having considered the factors set forth in sections 501 and 502(c) of the 1974 Act, I have determined that it is appropriate to suspend the application of duty-free treatment accorded to articles of Yugoslavia under the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP).
2. Section 604 of the 1974 Act (19 U.S.C. 2483) authorizes the President to embody in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS) the substance of the provisions of that Act, and of other Acts affecting import treatment, and actions thereunder.
Now, Therefore, I, George Bush, President of the United States of America, acting under the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including but not limited to Title V and section 604 of the 1974 Act, do proclaim that:
(1) General note 3(c)(ii)(A) to the HTS, listing those countries whose products are eligible for benefits of the GSP, is modified by deleting "Yugoslavia" in the enumeration of independent countries.
(2) Any provisions of previous proclamations and Executive orders inconsistent with the provisions of this proclamation are hereby superseded to the extent of such inconsistency.
(3) The amendment made by this proclamation shall be effective with respect to articles both: (i) imported on or after January 1, 1976, and (ii) entered, or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption, on or after 15 days after the date of publication of this proclamation in the Federal Register.
In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand this fifth day of December, in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and ninety-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and sixteenth.
George Bush
[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:05 a.m., December 6, 1991]
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