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Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

ANOTHER DECISION. Attorney Con
cral Dimmick is Of tho opinion that,
although city, township and borough
officers may have been elected before
tho new Constitution went sir.o OBJECT,
yet IL they were not dcly 10 office at
tho time Il went into effect, their
places should be 6lIod ut tho election
next February. g
As to when tho new Constitution
won't into effect, whether on tho first
Of January or the seventh, when the
Governor issued his proclamation, the
Attorney General expresses no opin.
ion, as the question has not been sub.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

The First National Bank Of Waynes-
burg, Greene county, has suspended.
Cause, bad management. The officers
give out the old story, "nobody will
lose anything by the failure" 0, no !!
Who ever heard Of people losing any
thing by the failure of bank +?
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

Royalty .oS Stills. - President
Grants scheme Of building houses for
Cabinet oiiiccrs at Washington has
pro,apted member Of tho Maryland
Senate to introduce into that body q
bill appropria,ing $4,000 for the pur.
pose Of building q permancnt resi-.
denco ut Washington for each un'scd
States Senator from tbs, State,
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

Loyalists are becoming alarmed
over the fact that there are thirty.one
ey- Confederates in the present Con.
gress, three of whom are Senators. -
Yes, gentlemen, five years more will
make negroes, scaIawags and carpet
baggers as scarce in Congress as hen
teeth in the Loyal League room.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

A RoYAL MARRIAoE.-Thc Lion and
mot the Lamb but) the Bear lying
down together. The Duke of EdD-
burg last week married the grand
Duchess Maria Alexandrovid, Of Rus
sia. The Royal ceremony took place
at St Petersburg, on the 23d. Thus
England and Russia have joined one
pair of hands, at all events.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

A Radical nxchan, O saya :

The President Is reported as saying that "vir-
cinia has given him more trouble than any other
'soxthern State" tiH
The government" evidently allud.
cd to the carrying of elections. Bay
onets have caused no intimidation in
that State. The whites and negroes
keep on voting and olecting Demo
Gratis to all the offices. 1t must be
annoying to many others besides
Grant
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

DEATH OF DIR. LIvIsosroNE.--A A
London despatch Of Monday announ-
ccs the death Of the great African ex-
plorer, Dr. Livingstone, which is said
to have taken place in juno last in the
interior of Africa, caused by an attack
Of dysentery.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

One Of the objectionable sins, now
hurled at the head Of the now Chief
Justice, by somo Of tho loyal presses,
Is to tho effect that Judge Waite voted
for Gen. Mcclellan in 1864. That, to
our mind, is the only rodecming quail
" We have heard of.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

The election of Col. Robert E. With.
crs, on the 18th, as United States Sem
ator from Virginia, to take the seat of
Lewis, Radical, is the last "straw"
piled on the Radical camel's back in
the old Dominion. Radicalism is as
.defunct in that State as before the
war, although it has $4,000 negroes to
Hback it."
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28
altw Advertisements.

A UDITOR's N0TsCE.-Tu tho Orphans
N Court Of Clcarleld county. In the matter
Of the estate Of Mrf, Frances MetzcJ late Of esou
county. Iowa, formerly Of Clearheld county, Ia,
deceased.
Tho undersigned auditor, appointed by the
court 10 dstribrte the balance 10 the hands Of tho
administrator 10 and among the persons legally
ealitlcd thereto. gives notice that he will attend
to tho duties " his appointment, at hi. oaice, 10
Clsarfcld, on Friday, the i3th day Of February,
between the hours Of 10 O'Clock a. N. and 5 o'clock
y. m. J. ". BANTx.
=. g. st-.-f- .--.-~s-
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

RICnr.--Congress is pointcdly re-
questcd by the Wisconsin Senate to
submit to tho people an amendment
10 the United States Constitution for
bidding Congress 10 increase its own
salaries.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28
Yfw Advertisements.
| DMINIsTRAToR's sALE-Rv

A DMlNlSTRATORS SALE-By
IA virtue Of an order i.sued out Of the or.
phnns' Court Of Cearhed county, the undsrsgned
administrator Of Edward King will offer at pub
lie sale, on the premises, In Burnside township,
In said county, at o'clock, p. M, on Monday.
the 23d day Of February, 1874, the following val
liable real estate, situated as aforesaid and bound
cd rs follows All that certain tract or piece Of
land, bounded by lands OF Frederick Shepherd
on the north, on tho cast by Joseph Walls, on tho
south by Henry Seborng and on the west by the
old homestead Of the late Eeeder King, contain
ing 10 acres, more or lees. This property Is sit
uated in the vicinity Of Cherry Tree borough, and
will prove valuable acquisition to the purchaser.
TEnns or sALE.-Ten per cent. OF the purchase
money must bc paid on tne day Of sale' on"-half
Of the whole amount Mt the confirmation Of tho
sale, and the balance In two equal annual pay
ments. with interest secured by bond and mort
gage on said premises.
JESSE NJ. HARTER,
Administrator Of Edward King, decd.
Grant =. o Jan. rs, 1874. 3t .
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

We observe BY tho Auditor -Gener.
ais Report that the Williamsport riots
cost the people Of the State over s24,-
900. Rather too much money for q
local FUSS
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

Mr.. Matthews, the step-iatbcr of
Schuyler Colfax, and lately printing
clerk Of the United States House Of
representatives, died on tho 18th, at
Buchanan, Michigan.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28
Livery Stable.

VvHE undersigned begs leave to inform the pub
L lie that he is now fully prepared to accommo-
date all in the way Of furnishing Horses, Bugges,
Saddles and Harness, on the shortest notice and
on reasonable terms. Residence on Locust street,
between Third and Fourth.
GEO. W. GEARHART.
Clearfeld April H. 1887
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28
HALF AND HAIL. ones OF the Her
aid (not OF New York, but of Tyrone),
went off this way last week:

"Ring rule is what sils the country. Cure that
and we are all right. The Republican party
snvcd the country, freed the slave and made a
man Of him. Ii ia progressive party and the
country has prospered more under its rule than
uudcr any other party 10 the history Of tho ma
tlon"
Tho two 6rst limos are true, but the
balance, when grouped together, makes
a "whoppcrv for an individual gov
crned by military etiquette.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

The Democrats Of Harrisburg nom-
mated d. w, Scilor for Mayor of that
ci', op Saturday night
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28

Sunday last was tho birthday oi
tho poet, Burns.
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28
Store House for Sale or Rent.

That well known Store and Dwelling House.
situated In Glen Hope, Clarified county. IS ofeg-
ed at private sale or Tor reut. The house Is two
stories high SO by 40 feet. with good back build
ing n No. l well Of water in back building other
outbuildings, such as ice house, smoke house,
corn crib, sablng aud large shedding, all In good
order. This property is suitable for any kind Of
business, and will be sold at private sale rent~
cd on reasonable terms 10 a respons .ble party.
The property Is good and in pleasant place to-
do business, and win be sold or rented on easy
terms Tho bad health OF the subscriber CON-
pels him TO close his business for iie present.
This house has done good busiaess, aaa sooa
business man can do well here. Posselsisl eiser
on April l. 1874. For luther inicrradot cLl
sn or write TO wM. :. DfCkkY s. son.
Glen Hope, Clearfeli Co., Pa. l3.u23-2n
nIssOLUTION.-So 4,sttc clrsp 10
IL all persons interested th1t r1e c1 p-ftuts-
sup heretofore existing b,twrl iaian Waii sn4
W illiam W. Mayes trading nldfr We .rm r-'rs
Of Wall A Mayes,vAs dissolved bY mute 81 cclstt.
on the 25:h day Of Noveuiber ait fla 13ghs
an accounts are In the bands o. N.linr "
Mayes. and all persons having unse'ied necDalts
are requested to forward AMI settle the sane
without delay. The real Estate interest Of Isaiah
W all was purchased by W. w. Mayes, who will
continue the business as heretofore.
ISAIAH WALL,
WILLIAM W. MAYES.
Green Hope, Pa Jan. y, Is74-3ts
Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-01-28
GEORGE B. GOODLANDER,
EDITOR AND PRoPRIEron.
CLEARFIELD, PA.

WEDNESDAY MORNING. JAN. 20. 1874.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
Nashville Grocery Market.

SUGARs-New Orleans, (new) in hogs
heads SE610c for fair to choice; Demerara
115G12e; standard hards 12e; A coffee
10sc; B do. 1Osc; extra G do. 103c; yellow
G 10d10ac.
MOLAssEs-We quote New Orleans 65G
73c; sirups 55d65c; golden strip Csc.
COFFEE-The market is considerably
stronger with an advance in the East, but
not quO;ably higher here. We quote: Rio,
common to choice, 30632c; Laguayra SEA
33c; Java Soc.
CHEEsE-We quote factory 16id17c.
MASSIVE quote at $4.625 for l0ds, and
25c additional for diminishing grades.
SALT-We quote Z bushel barrels at s.. 10
per barrel in store.
CANDLEs-We quote star 17d17ic % ID.
FIsH-We quote as follows: Half bar
rels, Nos. l, 2 and 3, $500, $7.25 and $3.50;
in kits, Nos. 1, 2 and 3, $3.50, 500 and
S1.75.
RICE-We quote at sid9c.
TEAs-We quote Imperial 75cdS1.25;
Young Hyson 75edS1.25; Black SOFA
S1.00; Gunpowder 75cdS1.25.
POwDEB-DupOnt S7.25; Sycamore Mills
S7.25; blasting $500; fuse per 100 feet 65c.
SHOT-We quote Patent $3.50; Buck
S2.T5.
LIQUoRs-We quote common rectifed
whisky e. gallon $780,; Robertson County
S1.T5d3.0O; Bourbon S1.25d5.50; Lincoln
County S1.7563.00; Highwines S1.OO.
COTTON TIES-We quote at 1Oc.
BROoMs-We quote at S2.5Od3.5O %
dozen.
SoAP-We quote at 56sc % ID, or 500
also u box.
BAGGNG-We quote at 15616c for
hemp and fax.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
Sundries.

SEEDs-Market fiuctuating. We quote:
Red clover 1915; sapling $500; timothy
$500; red top 1850 80; blue grass S1.5O;
orchard grass $500; Hungarian Sl.5O; Mis-
souri, millet S1.5O; German millet Sl.I5d
200.
COTTON YARNs-We quote at lie, 13c,
15c and lie for 700, 600, 500 and 400.
SHUCKs-In demand at $3.50 per 100 lbs
for hacked, and S1.50 for rough.
WRAPPING PAPER-We quote small at
SOC, medium 75c; double crown 81.
IRoN-We quote as follows: Tennessee
bar 65c ~ ID; Kentucky do. &c; Tennessee
band 6d9c; Kentucky do. 5Id63c; Tennes-
see boiler plate sc; boiler heads &c; fire
box 10c, sheet; common 6d7c; do. Ken
lucky 7IdSIc; do. Tennessee Sd93c.
BARRELs-We quote at 40G5Oc.
GLAsSwARE-We change our quotations
to suit the card rates as follows: 5 by III
1918; 10 by II S7.25; 10 by ii $500; 10 by
Is 1915; II by IA SS.75; u by 10 $50; II
by Is 1925; u by 20 1925. Discount
40I.
FLAsKs-The quotations are net as fol-
lows: Half pint s2.75; pint 1913; quar-
$4.75.
CANDIE-We quote stick candy 15c;
common fancy 16c.
CoBDAGE-Jute 1Sc; grass zoe; cotton
soc.
PEPPER-We quote at S0d32c.
SPICE-We quote at 16c.
GINGER-We quote at 16c.
TALLOw-We quote at &c.
ORANGEs-We quote at 80 per barrel.
CLovEs-Advanced to 50d60c.
ONION SETS-We quote as follows: Red
onion button per bushel $3.50; red onion
sets $500, white button $3.50; white sets
S11.50.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
PEACE aSnwaR


eottage-girl trips by with side-long look,
Steadying the little basket on her head;
and, where plank bridges the narrow brook,
she stops to see her fair form Swallowed:
- Inc stream reflects her cloak of russell red;
Below, she sees the trees and deep-blue sky,
The flowers which downward look in that clear
bed;
The very birds which Ger its brightness fy;
She parts her lOOse-brown hair, and, wondering,
passes by.
troop of soldiers pass with stately pace,
- Iheir early music wakes the village street;
through the white blinds peeps many lovely
face,
Smiling, perchance unconsciously, how sweet;
One does the carpet press with blue-yeined
feet;
Not thinking how she her fair neck exposes,
And with white foot she times the drums deep
beat;
And when again she on her pillow dozes,
Dreams how she'll dance that tune 'mong sum-
mer's sweetest roses.
SO let her dream, even as beauty should
Let the white plumes athwart her slumb ers
sway;
Why should 1 steep their swelling snow in
blood
Or bid her think of battles grim array?
Truth will too soon her fiery star display,
And like fearful comet meet her eyes;
And yet how peaceful they pass on their way!
How grand the sight up the hill they risel
will not think of cities reddening in the skies.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
MARKETS. BY TELEGRAPH.
The Cotton Markets.

LIVERPOOL, March H. Cotton firmer;
middling uplands 75aSd; middling Orleans
sd. Sales 1900 bales; American
1900 bales; speculation and exports, -
bales.
NEW YORK, March 14.-CottOn dull and
irregular; middling uplands 16tc; futures
closed steady; sales of 7,TOObaies as follows:
March 15sc; April l5sal5 12-32c; May 10
3-16al6c; June 16sc; July 10 l5-l6e.
NEW ORLEANS, March 14-COttOn-de-
mand fair; sales 4.Tj0 bales; prices ir-
regular but steadier toward close; good or
binary to strictly good ordinary 13tc; low
middlinCs to strict low middlinCs l4aal5.c
middlinGs to strict middlings 1j4ai6c;
good middlings 1G9al7c. Receipts 2,57o
bales: exports to Great Britain 3,3l5 bales;
coastwise I.660 bales; to continent -
bales; stock 1854 bales; UnSOld l93,4OO
bales.
MEMPHIS, March 14.-COttOn dull and
lower to sell; inferior to low Ordi-
nary GaS5c; good ordinary l34al3ac; low
middlings 145a14sc, middliHgs l5.al! &c;
strict middlings l6c; good middlings l6ta
lie; receipts for the past day 1,joO bales;
shipments for the past twenty-f0ur hours
LIS bales; stock "a, ~ bales.
SAVANNAH, March IA. Cotton steady:
middlings 153c; net receipts 1,947 bales;
exports TO the continent Up bales; coast
wise - bales; to Great Britain -
bales; sales 1,010 bales; stock - bales.
GALVESTON, March 14.-CottOn quiet
with a moderate demand; good ordinary
13sc; middlings 165c; net receipts ZIP
bales; exports to France - bales; coast
wise 1.OI2 bales; u continent - bales;
TO Great Britain 2,503 bales; sales 1000
bales.
CHARLESTON, March 14.-COtton steady;
middlings Isle; low middlings l4sal4sci
good ordinary 14al45c; net receipts SIS
bales; exports to Great Britain - bales;
cOastwise 72I bales; to continent - bales;
sales 1000 bales; sock - bales.
MOBILE, March 14.-COttOn quiet; mid
dlIngs Isle; low middlings c; good or
binary C; net receipts Liza bales; gross
LIZA bales; exports to Great Britain -
bales; cOastwise 312 bales; to the CONT
nent - bales, sales 1000 bales.
ST. LOUIS. March 14.-COttOn Stea0y;
best grades middlings 15ae.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
CRAVING REST.

OH for the leisure to lie and To dream
By some woodland well, or some ripping stream
With a cool green covert of trees overhead,
And fern or moss for my verdurous bed?
To rest and triie with rushes and reeds,
Threading wild berries like chaplets Of beads,
Letting the breeze fan my feverish brows,
Hearing the birds sing their sammery VOWS.
OH for the leisure to lie without thought,
Upon the minds anvil the ingOt unwrOught;
The hammers that beat in my temples at rest;
Calm in life's atmosphere, calm in the breast.
To loIl or saunter, to laugh or to weep,
Waken the echoes, OF silence TO keep,
With no human being at hand TO intrude,
Or question the wherefore Of manner or mood.
OH for such leisure TO rest and to stray
In green haunts of Nature, If but for day;
Through leaves to look at the sky from the sod
Alone with my heart, my hopes, and my God.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
THE SOCIETY MAN.
His Experience at Party With n
Pair of Kids that Were Too Small.

His Experience at n Party With n
Pair of Kids that Were Too Small.
One of the correspondents of Hearth
and Home draws this little picture Of a
society man" in difficulties:
Il had a curious encounter the other
night. 1t was a madman-in Mrs.
Brimlow's elegant gentleman's dress
ng-room-'frst floor front for gentle
men'-as the dusky bookkeeping au-
tomaton down stairs had Just informed
me. Just inside the aboye-indicated
door / encountered man. l know it
was a man--you can always tell them
at a party. They wear very thin, mar
row boots; very tight pants; very low
vests; very startling lockets; very spiky
dress coats; very distinguished ties
under very exemplary collars; very
waxy moustaches, and part their hair
very near the middle-very. Indeed
your average party-man is sort of a
mild superlative all the way through
inside aud out. But if 1 had enter
tanned any doubts at all concerning his
masculinity, they would have been dis
PEELED by the muttered oaths that came
struggling from under his moUstache
and through his compressed lips. 1t
certainly was man. / knew him by
his clothes and his swear. And he was
mad. ] said so, and / stick to it. His
face was red, and his brow contracted,
his step impatient, and he bore all over
the appearance of one who is trying to
keep his feelings under control, and
that, too, with very Indifferent success.
He was evidently struggling with some
thing. and at last comprehended the
situation; he was trying to squeeze
his hands-which usually accOmmo-
dated nines-into pair of white kids
that were only Fights and half.
Certainly a very trifiing affair to get
mad at; but just try it yourself once,
as he said to me: There's my lady
waiting impatiently in the next room
for me to take her down stairsl and
here l am yet, sweating and swearing
over these COMPOUNDED gloves. See;
I've just got one on!' and he held up a
rather cloudy white, which looked as
though the seems were trying to meet
each other through the poor mans
hand, making the parts where they
weren't appear like miniature canvass
bellying before the wind-'and now
here this other one won't come. By
Georgei l wish goats would eat their
own kids-so that-whewl there the
old thing goes. ConfOund it, and,
sure enough, an enormous rent reveal
ed a great deal of red hand between
two sections of rather rumpled- looking
kid. He looked like a man whose light
had gone out-a man who was sent
for and couldn't come-who thought
he would and then wished he hadn't
and Just as he was getting up an espe-
pecial malediction appropriate to the
occasion, Black John appears with a
grin and a jerk: Please, sahl Miss
Grimsby wants to know if you are ex-
pecting to go down to the parlors this
EVENING" And so there was nothing
else to be done, and the poor fellow
descended, with an incensed lady, a
torn glove, a narrowed spirit-all be-
cause his kids were half size too
| crnall -
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15


These figures show a decrease in the az
gregate numbers amounting to 1894 this
season as compared with last.
During several years past the proportion
which the aggregate numbers packed at
these points have sustained to the whole
number packed in the West has varied but
slightly from five-eighths, or 90! per cent.
In regard to weights, by making the
usual deduction Of twenty per cent from
gross to arrive at net weights at Cincinnati
and St. Louis, the other points having re-
turned net weights, we have the following
results: Chicago, 1918 pounds lighter
than last year; Cincinnati, 1881 pounds
lighter; s.. Louis, 1.53 pounds heavier;
Louisville, 123 pounds lighter; IndianapO-
lis, 20 pounds lighter; Milwaukee, "a
pounds lighter.
Average decrease at all these points, 1859
pounds in net weight of hogs, or 20.S6
pounds in gross weights, equivalenttO about
Il per cent. The aggregate decrease in net
weight of hogs at these points is 5S,665,7TT
pounds. The packing this season is eqniva-
lent to 3,lS6,Sl3 hogs of the weight Of
1S72-73, or equal to deficiency of 254,634
in numbers of equal weight at these points.
The average yield Of lard of all kinds, is
repOrtedas follows: Chicago, 37.44 pounds
per head> Cincinnati, 39.7; St.LOuis, Bats;
Louisville, 293; indianapolis, %; Milwau-
kee. unknown.
Relative to packing at interior points,
we are not prepared at this time to make a
statement-and can only say that the whole
packing in the West Will vary but slightly
in numbers from season Of 1S72-73, in the
light Of such evidence as is now in our
possession. The full report will be pub
lished in the Price Current Of next week,
and also in circular form, convenient for
reference.
The following is the statement Of the
hog product manufactured in Chicago for
the season just closed: Lard, 10000 tcs.;
mess pork, 10000 bbls.; weet-pickled
hams, 10000 tcs.; green hams, 27,OOO,OOO
lbs; shoulders, 34,OO0,O00 TBS; short rib,
34,OO0,O0O TBS; short clear, 25,OOO,OOO lbs;
long clear, 22,O00, 900 TBS.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15

erous. Teams that wander from the beaten
track not unfrequently get
-"MIRED."
Some friends went driving yesterday who
had gone only few feet from the road
when the horse stopped and began sinking.
They jumped out of the carriage, and while
the lady was running to a house near by,
she looked back to see if his ears were still
visible to indicate the spot where he had
been, and was greatly relieved TO find that
he had sunk only the length of his legs, and
was complacently eating the grass which
was temptingly near. He was philosophy
cal enough not to 60 down hungry with a
good meal at his mouth. Having this men
tai GOODNESS he was extricatedwithout much
difficulty. I advise all venturesome spirits
to become expert gymnasts before explor-
ing this part Of the world, that in the event
of their coming upon soft spot they may
to 60 down head first to be sure OF
coming out right on the other side.
LEON LILLIPA.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-15
THE LITTLE NUN.

BY MILE W. CARPENTER.
Ny window OverlOoks the street,
And, drifting ever down,
i hear the hundred passing feet,
The idlers of the town.
Cav traders in from foreign ports,
And sailors from the main,
With soldiers from sea-girded forts,
Loiter and pass again.
Sometimes an airy form fits by,
And filings backward glance;
know the proud, alluring eye,
The daring grace of France
But daily through the checkered street,
Where vice and virtue stray,
One tender girls face, fresh and sweet,
Passes and fades away.
With dOve-like eyes whose glance shuns
mine,
And modest braided hair,
No lily could 80 whitley shine,
No rose bloom half so fair.
She comes and goes, and no one knows
Whittier her footsteps tend;
No prickly thOrns rOtect my rose
From lover, foe, or friend.
I think that down some pictured aisle,
Some vast. dim church within,
She kneels, and with her nunlike smile,
Prays for the souls in sin.
= She comes! 1 lose her in the throng;
But still nay pulses thrill
As echoes of a sweet lOve-sOng
Touch when the keys are still.
And ali! the senseless blocks, sweet nun,
On which your light feet tread,
Should spring like gardens oyerrun
With blossoms white and red.