The Republican journal., 1874-12-10

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was missing from the party Quietly bid
ding good night to her friends Of the house,
she had Slipped out and gone home alone.
The ground was covered with snow that
sparkles IN the moonbeams. Walking
along slowly scarcely noting the beauty OF
the scene around her. She meditated po-
etjcal epistle to Fitz-Greene Halleck, and
reaching her room sat down, and wrote
the following
NEw-YEAR'S NIGIT-THE MERRY MOCK
BIRDS SONG.
Ger fields Of snow the moonlight falls,
And softly 0n the snow-white walls
OF Abb cottage shines;
And there beneath the breath Of june
The honeysuckle's gay testoon,
And multiliora twineS,
ANA forms sweet cmbowering shade
Pride Of the humble cottage maid,
Who now transformed and bold,
Beneath the magic OF a name,
those equal rights presumes to claim,
Rights urged by Young ami old
and who is she to fame unknown,
NuO dares her challenge thus throw down.
Low 1T the feet Of one
Who holds d proud conspicuous stand
Among the magnates of the land,
The muses. tayorlte son:
And when She roamed a careless child
10 pluck the forest blossoms wild,
OFT climbed some pendant brow
~ tN VI g,tn 6 ~ sa.HGL t, tiie[J . e
Ilan all that bloomed below.
80 now like Eve il Paradise,
or low and friends6ip bland
Htth many sooer blessing fr lught,
Nouia Sl'e totln ~ 70 1oI one hIna thought
'LIe ''17 VIZ '''NN leA'
Like that taiT plant OF Indla 5 held5
IIEt most when bruised ami broken ields
Its fragrance on the air
y.ii 6ds % oF M nv -c,t, Gono W. ~ n,strels,
NJ i il ,vrrtL tbI a1rn9
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ShG si3neN TINS E4IeN a. |amppeII,
Incorporating her Initials with the name
Of SCOTS Lady OF the Lake and for.
Warded II to the poet,
In those davs OF slow coaches much time
must necessarily elanse before a resp0nse
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suppose tAal uUIIA8 t1e "lteiN a. pGoy ant
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lHl9 -I' M = """ "9"'' - ~ ti17 t'''oA1
OF her letter.
i'orh"Pn WHOM the i1fot glow ot 9dvon
tUrQus tGclug passed She ha!t regretted
her action aid felt the natural shrinking
Of womans neart from Offering itself
upas6ed even III lest
And when at INST Tile ,our-looked~for.
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We" ~ -''' r - A-'-' y
olIAS ea2eIhess 7iNe u-''st nave op9ue0 @uN
S@'s' I
70 l-ALE-'--- H. AoIAI-'T-Slhp'
The Scottish border uinsuels lay
Lntrsnced me oft III boy hoods day
HIS for sis, gens and streams,
Mountains and heather blooming fair
: T TiLsi1H9 tt1e 1 " ,9 Ig0f dresS3s MTte
-'' H''-s ''-'-''@ - ---+
Years passed away; my dreams were gone;
NJ pilgrim footsteps pressed alone
Loeb hatune's st0riel shores
And winds that winged me DER thu lake
IlSStD9I' f ~ :. 80 Stiv ~
Ne i4-'9'0 u IL! ~'''
10 tramp Of warrior men were heard
For wciC0lna-song or ChAlenge-WOrd
I lis ened, but ID vain
And moored beneath his favorite tree.
M |t,'sr trsy.Tsire@ I,gTe = III I'M Psnep
S'-
I saw the Highland heath flower smile
IN beauty upon EJlen's isle;
And coached III Ellen's bower
! watched. beneath the lattice leaves,
Her coming, throu-h summer eve's
Youngest and LoyeIiest hour
..,,a lo,r,. ma. ,,,,o-,, wa. nor ,o,,e.
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e nr9g ron iAg IL eDg ad NJ aa, ae' gi bn 1w
y Before eG'i,s The f Shrine @ Of SOM Song,
Devoutiv as | bowed in youlh;l
For hearts that worship there in tro'h
~ Jo! arr 0''I young
Ana ven my harp responds to-day,
and willingly its chords obey
ne ,4sr6eiS siS wEesa 5oEe@ G9gnaaG inFant