Minnesota weekly times. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1854-1859, 1855-02-06

LOVE.
elbow bright and beautiful 10 love-" in ito hour
Of purity and innocence-how mysteriously it
sthsrealises feeling, and concentrates every Wild
terous love u b the garland spring Of life, the
poetry Of nature. Its song 4 heard in the rude
hut a the poor, a. well the gorgeous palace of
the RIGHTS fame embollishes the solitude Of the
forest, and the thronged haunts of busy life, and
its light imparts brillancy to every heart, no mat
ter what may be it's condition.
Love-pure and devoted love, can never change:
Friends may forget us-the riches Of this world
may away, but the heart that loves will cling
the closer as loud roars the storm, and amid the
wreck of the tempest, it will serve as sbeacon''
to light us on to safety and happiness.
Love is the music and unseen spell that soothes
the wild and rugged tendencies of human nature
that fingers about the sanctity of the fre-side,
and untes in closer union the affections of socie
ty and the soul that loves truly will love for
ever. Nor like the waves of the ocean, nor traced
in sand, is the image impressed upon loving
heart. No, no-but it will remain unbroken and
unmarried-it will burn on undefaccd in it's lus-
tre amid the quick rush of the tempest cloud, and
when our fate seems dark and dreary, then will
offer us a sacrifice, her vows and Affections
Monumental Literary Gazette.
A PERFECT WIFE.-Edmund Burke, the distin-
guished orator, presentedto his wife On the ami
versary of their marriage, his idea of "perfect
wife," which is supposed to be O true portrait of
Mrs. Burke. 1t is certainly lovely picture, wor-
thy of the pen of the author of sThe Essay on the
Sublime and Beautiful" The following passages
are extracts:
The character d..
She is handsome, but it is beauty not arising
from features, from complexion, or from shape.
She has all three in high degree, but it is not by
~. Il xLo hoo : hat
ness of temper benevolehce, innocence, and sensi.
bility, which face can express, that forms her
beauty. She has face that just raises your at
tention at first sight; it grows on you every mo-
ment, and you wonder it did no more than raise
your attention at first.
Her eyes have a mild light, but they awe wher
she pleases they command like good man out
of Office, not by authority, but by virtue.
Her stature is not tall, she is not made to bt
the admiration of everybody, but the happiness
of one. r-t ~ la
She has all the frmness that does not exclude
delicacy-she has all the softness that does moi
imply weakness.
Her voice Isl softlow music, not formed to rule
in public assemblies, but to charm those who car
distinguish company from crowd; it has THU
advantage-you must come close to her to hear It
To describe her body, describes her mind; on,
is the transcript of the other her understanding
is not shown in the variety of matters it exerts it
self on, but in the goodness of the choice sh'
makes.
She does not display it so mnch in saying or do
ing striking things as in avoiding such as sh
| ought not to say or do. -.
No person of so few years can know the worlt
better no person was ever less corrupted by thu
| knowledge.
Her politencss flows rather from natural dis
position to oblige, than from any rules on tina
subject, and therefore never fails to strike thos
who understand good breeding, and those who d,
| not.
more from the solidity Of The female cltaracte
than the solsdity Of marble does from its pol
| ISL and Iustre. She has such virtues as make u
value the truly great of our own sex. She ha
all the winning graces that make us love even tn
faults we see in the weak and beautiful in hers.