The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1872-03-02

J
us could well be:
"Ealf without seeing, half with sight,
saw you coming by;
Blushing looked, and looking I blushcd,
For am young and shy.
"Kindly the eyes You bent on me,
Kindly the hand unglovcd,
Kindly the voice Which spoke. and
Listened and liked-anI--loved!
ais i. wrong TO tell the tales
Will you forbid and frown?U
And must Echoke my timid heart,
And gulp my secret down?
"Do you not sec my pailid check,
Where roses bloom no more?
All, diagnose the case, and speak,
Those roses to restore 3fs4ai. 5
ITO kind st. Valentine I'll lsay;
He will the tnngle sever,
And speed my love, or bid it die,
And hiIc my name forever"
Now those mischiefs, Julia and Emi-
~, never for Que moment thought of
Mary Hiss when they scribbled .h,se
absurd verses. Tho person in their eye
If, indeed, any thing could be said to
be there except pure love of fun
was maiden of some forty sum-
mers, who WAS currently reported to
have laid free siege to the heart of DR..
Aubrey under the ira nsparent disguise
of livcr-conplaiut! The doctor had
gone hlinlly insosthe asts proppsesl -fss.
him had fal. the pulse, ekurined the
tongue, advised fresh air, anG writ IN
prescription far a heroic d"se vi ':poti
tilinc" (Which prescription, of course,
wcntitinto the fire as soon MS he loli).
md thcn---had discontinued his visits.
to the iufuite' disgust of the would be
charmer. Naughty Julia Laurence got
hold of the story; aud hence the valen-
time, Which, with many ohuckles and
fits of laughter, was duly posted and
marked "B," Brown being the name of
the lady Of the liver
Nobody but very vain man or an
absolute goose would so have bundcrcd.
Our doctor WAS not vain, but he was a
goose, as many cstimabl" people are. He
had never received v1lentine before in
his life, aud now began to think, had
Mary looked little pale lutely? or
course she never meant that about low
ing-that was only put in to supp ,rt the
valentine character, or to make out a
rhyme. But suppose there was just IL
little substratum of meaning in it sup
pose she really did like him little. and
guessing his secret prediction, had
chosen this way of letting him know it !?
OH dear, oh dear what thought WAS
there!
Meantime, pretty Mary was reading
and re reading her valentine, which was
beginning to get quite worn about the
edges from much CARVING nhnn1 in mock
cts. For this, too, Julia and Emily
were responsible. But, bless you, they
never alluded to DIR. Aubrey at all a
certain tall, black bearded Dr.. Wcbber
was the person they mcant-a widower,
who, having successfully disposed of II
brace OF wives, was now SAID to be look
Ing about Tor third, aud to have drawn
up his seige-train i'll front Of the Bliss
residence. He aud Mary had appeared
together not long since at concert,
which putting the notion in the heads of
our naughty pair, the following was the
result:
'Sviih sadness which is not gloom,
With wish mol yet hope,
In every house and in every room
Ipaiiently, wistfully gropc.
"Grope for friendly hand,
For sympathetic eye,
For space to SOW one little seed,
Which may be a flower by. and by.
''Sown in n human heart,
This seed Glove is lis name)
Grows to blossom worthy of
The heaven from which it oame.
off it might bud and bloom,
Ogentlc one and fair
In the sweet garden Of your heart,
Wrapped in such balmy air,
''Petal and leaf and stem,
Unfolding day by day,