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To (by :Might MY, 1 t - Spring up to greet thee; as thou paasest by,l With blithe odors cf Meat Ariaby— ' !!, May,lovely May! Than comest, and to earth glad tiounds art bring lag i _ • '; _- From the small insect, that, with; cherful Nut ; Flits through the Sunbeam, to the 'wild bird'phaging, 'Rejoicing etrainsof Nature's antic come; And each young fini t ay, ; "Which thou hest clothed detr.gemmt* robes of green, ! . -; Bawl with s' courtier's grace before his:nueen, May, merry. Mail The alure sky. o'er which no Mond is sle4llrig -- Grows moraintetistiyazirre;like the !yet': • Which meet train other eyes a lookievealing Unspoken volumes of deep syropmbies; ' .And blest are they= ': The, young, pure.hearied, beautifid and trio— Whose beans are tinged with thiai'ind lori's ruin hue, -"; 741 '1 , happy MY! Alas,: for those to whom thy preitinen brined!' ,No gMekenetl prilse, no- Ifeart-throb'ef delight i.., Who longils thy brightness, while the thought wingeth ' ; -:, TA distant sconen RI free - and airy; flight; , ' ' _ Far. far away;; Perchance to linger - whore this marble tells Of friends isho•elambet. in 'a arth's silent Map, slimly May - Vat* the cinst . if those who steep thris Sallie. sweet -Orty. bath no reviving ppir;:r; —Bat round the ithed , thy inlit6neefiolp; ;'• ;fwd cheer the heart, tvhich, likiialstarta-erast;ed • Sjularto decay, ; • ..WiticticAnte of irpt4and.ctu•stiflitaveribt Aad i t alghtlyonil64)*Y#tlark".srate!rie tnc;irt; geuti‘titiv ;11- laiima Nay, loiel kat aingliter 'Life's sweetest cup isaliiiiiiaabe4 peas aducss= _44 whiloWespenk thorert **ping . .thy bier ' Passing -Like ail tiitit's'earthiy—liogering hat to show That unmixed happineesdwelle moi below— 1 , ' ' - 'May; fleet ing _ May S ' When.- airs; Ellii first proposed to little Mciross Mann that he 'shotild accompany her home, he ran screaming M L. mother's room, sat down - on ber.fmitsteol,.sna laying hie arms and fare tip* the cushions of her chair, wept . and . sobbed, callipg Mamma-oh mamma'. in all the keen -agony of childish sorrow. It has been matter of wonder to me; that the generality. of .peePle have so forrrotten . --- i ; ! ; 1 their own childhood, as to treat the feelings of , what shall-we'do with our ;Locreae•--, - in-] zhildren with contempt or ridicule. Children (mired Mrs. Mann of her husband, as they sail feel with their whole soils: Nd shadoni of i together in the vine cover'd verandah, smiling! forethotight Or erperience, `darkens . ' their joy I at the merry gambols.of their bright eyeddar- I. in'the presentl-•-tio calculating worldliness, or ling Mary. Whatlutli we do With oue,'Lli- 1 icy' philosophy turns the edge of their sorrows. creep? she is such a little dummy; and so 1113- tWhile lkir. Mann felt that his invalid wife ivaS 1 amiable,. and , sullen.' She haS au - habitual ,'removed from a painful and joyless existence, gloom on her brow, and will sit ;for hours and 'to a - Ttfe of immortal -health and glory ; the sever speak a word. , , •! - ;• - !children only that its loving' tender :nether I • - Perhapa'she is Thinking,. at, tich ilniei, ob- !was desd, and huried.Out of his sight Inrever. nerved the gentleman , addressed., . - ' ' ' The man knew that he could woo and win Ido not believe she is, persisted the moth- another woman to be his wife,—the child knew er; for she never:mike questions : - a child 1 that he could - never have a second mother. that thinks. :Mary mow, will, come to me i Mrs. ;Ellis busied herself' about the aiart- I twenty times a day, with her queer puzzling [meat,. until , the child's agony Sub Sided, into 1 , questions. ..She is a bright little elf. , BrlkLl3- I moans and sobs, thee sitting down beside' biin - , I creee, will mope, with her eyes fix'd on wean - - I she laid her hand gently 'on his head, and with. I cy, a whole hour, and then walk dreamily out any reference-to his - sorrow,"commented away; without uttering a syllable.' I do' not ;telling of - the pleasant ride 'they would have believe she thinks at all. . 1 ' , , land ferry boat in which they would 'cross the Clara, said Mr: Mann seriouly-z-I fens we i broad clear river; of her house, and the little I wrong our child. ' She evidently not ;-onlyiboys he would see there; of' her garden, with thinks, but feels - deeplY. I hive observed her, the fine flowers and ifrawbernes, of her doves, in her silent moods, gazing "so .-intently 41t0 1 canary birds, great green parrot; and the little 1 heaven; that' almost expectedio - see • uncial dog who - could perforai slmest as many feats, 1 mmirror'din her elear blue eves. 'And I then las dui famous animal in which good dames What a multitude of 'tu l4ts and hymns - a eau i Hubband so much delighted. ' -- -! . ' 1 repeat; it is in a child of five Years ; Melrose listened, became interested, and fi. old, not ye(able to read. '_Let tts cherish her Daily Mr/ Ellis led him from the room, equipt . i. ; tenderly Clam.; for I often . fancy that She is i him for the journey, and pinied him umesist. ' one of those edeitial spirits, that make ,short ing; in her easy carriage. -,_ • i it# on earth. She seems •to have so little -in • - `Arrived at Ellisland, and given over to the i common with other children, and-takes Plena: companiomitip, of three healthy merry boys, i • Ore in nothing so' much as the' verdure and Melrose improved like a starved house plant, '• Bowers of earth; and the,:eionds l , and stirs of transferred to a sunny garden: There was a heaven,: , .. ~•, ,_,. 1 ." - ; . , Nast difference in a free out' dew:life, of exer-1 ', :W e ll,ejaeulated. Mrs. 11.-1 wish she,. was elite; and the • enervated, seclusion of a sick] like other children. Ido not Understand her. chamber, te - whieh he had been almost all his ''...Mr..ildenn had been it auccesatlit,farmer, and life confined, lie •did - not forget his Mother ; . ' was now the merchant,: of, the'', little cOuntry but he. hadconstant - companionship, went ev,l - village which had grownup in the vicinity if ell day tO ',school; and retired at night,- just. his beautiful homestead. , Me.arried in early weary:enongh to go directly to bleep. • Con-1 lifenn excellent Woman, whosedelicate con- senuently' he had 1M -time-for dwelling= with etitmtion prcived unable to endtire the ishori. tie sorrOw,'mnd- soon became a rosy, deal 1 ens life Of, a practical f ar m er 's I. if' ' ' F ' ' I sttotifi 80.16130 Y :fellow j so" that when at thee . { I . w e. or A . a b timeshe went on, 'cheek : o6i and hopefully,l end-of three Months, his tither - came to visit 1 - . ritemg before the dhy,.milking the tows-,-malt.' Mtn, eipeetiag'btrbe'ealied . upon - to partici- i •••,•:''' .. ing batter 'and cheese; baking, eoeking - Wash- pate In a scene of tears' and lamentations; 'he 1 log,. ironing. sweeping,, scrubbing, scouring, was ovedord to Ma r ble Son so well and hap. and working in the garden; besides spinning, - 'III an d to be received received+aittimerry shoats, en vl sewing, and knitting, which kept her ni, at lively ihat 4 er• tluthilTtb6 evening 3l re• - Ellie 1 work, until late" at nigbt;.-ti lekuirse: Of life, w lenquired-efter eertnloWidesi'd,gentleinne in which thousandif - 61 our `country women-par- 1 liiimeighlitirhood;Me is quite Well, Mr. Malin - sue for years, iii good health, With ptide flia replied, and his kome' is_ 'rentore - 0 - to iii old pleasure.. But Mr. Mini nitnr giving;l lfirth ilmtkeninf4t and cheerfulness., He is married, lo *boy, in the second year other;marriagei 'sad has brought his children home again, and -never pepdned her lieslth: , - Tbe outmost eke .-1 14 all seem - veil -1 40; . 'could do, was to take tails sal 'he Child, on Tho_nboininable Tillaki'"eliaidaii`a Idgi• - ki• which she noted, as a yearn! invalid Mother lie. *ferried again! oh horror. Could not _.............- ..... • Omltt . • • • . - 17fhtenfor eke 511introzeDealoccat., _ , THE STEP MOMS AND HER FAMILY. 'Jigs. irtni Lot rir.4.ios 1L;," ,_ . , • - *ust;:who feels that 'she hai notiongtiO.Stay With the tender child Who'inisibn:Utt Moth.] erless, in this unloving World. ' As her life do. 'clined - , , bee love for her` child heearac the more intense; end althougk freak' always' being' in dulged 'he grew selftsh and : exacting: her -Pa. *fence aid"affection never tired. _, Mr. Itent3 Law that she was, eMpliatically *polling the, Child; - but he . cohld 'int 'grieve 'her by,inter. fedif witklier only earthly aid: em ployMent,:the nurturing ' of' her child. i Els daily avocations' prevented - him from giving her much of hia seciety,*and-ii; nature , failed. ihe'clieli'of her sympathies narrowed until ike:y all clung the boy :;' - and'oTten as she mid him tO 'her bosom, would . the yearning ssh 6.4 , ..b.p.:: AK my „ chill—would `to ';God bit ive might - inter his heavenjogettier.. It could - Pot 'therefore otherWige be, than that when this devoted 'Mother died, I the be= reeved' child then - in his ninth'year,-should be htterlv" inconsolable. The itarither, with her _intense unwearying hve, could: never be re. ; dlaced., IHe felt it, and 'his littleheart was esolate., .Hiabome was to him a World-With out sunshine or verdure. Me wept--:•and Wonld'iot be comforted. Mrs. Ellis—an aunt of Mrs—Mann, a childlesS Widow;who remain. 'ed a few, days after the . fnrieral, proposed to take the Poor' boy home with her; fissuring ihis father that he ' would "mope himself to .death, death, there, where everything reminded him r,f his dear departed mother." ' ' '. , • I . Mrs. EN'S had riffle film, and a tenant to , manage it, who with his Wife and throe' Sens, 1 ranging in age froth ten to five years, occupied 1 a part of her house. She was a healthy incr. [ ry hearted woman, rho Managed to live; read 1 seine, and talk a:gient dial, Without ever think ing.- If her'inindreceiv'd a bias, sl.e never . rctlectEd whether it was right or wrong.. If she had'adoPted, an opinion,:she never inqair- I ed if it Were true or false._ She Was. content 1 to'believe without questioning, :, SheiWaavery benevolent, and had iipleAr i W'rriff- for every body:: :? : if there was - fine'46p:s.l:igtterjaess... h a heiiitimf 4' 1 ' 114 her dq-iViietlfe . 4* ctil§e.i , "entieus abhorrence ,i.r.*4_ iio r '"masiiAkeir . -he' , 'dewed them i,,44-itiii.ni:iirik*6l' (saw cilia : diiithi- ‘ai,e'gc r- '''' s ;d4 . 4y3.,deeTirreril openly - thli - fut '''''' . 5 - _,lp intrmationerf mat:di:llOn' lat.:lntel §s niimpzrdi 111 # iio, air,* oitEliis'ever nii)iimlier han3 with the litle;rofliei farm in ~~ ' q~~ . y p j~~~ ly ' j~~{ A ~ ? '~/o'V V'~`l`Y , - • - - -•- ..ttollatgaii*'l-11t) , W.12,4teritam,r; IS-grirmittlire, Aoetrar,-,R6M-Ailactllg.atZ 'd Asithojit ; liollit!ng ,his : marriage th . his wife who is waiting for him sAncl.then,,to place a svick'ed step '-tis Pont, lonocvnk.ebildren. ,- I It make him rim the day, to Which tie, said , Air, Mann, smiling quiet. I 'anY 1t- time-heard you commend ' - s a; most 'excellent and lovely %V -l A nd airectioiatitmture - and ehris. . You idu:not. surely imagine- that 1 8 9 lidr. Greenee,.childre.n*, 'merely be have liv co . venunt w In haven? mother ore hoie eheAr he assn her. Why no Jy,i hare man, of tia.n gr.?CeP• bec4use mother can r., loves:.thelr.father,?': Since :their never return to them—surely they ith their f4tller'a wife, that they • tter'd s here and there, with less fn. '.:ons,and away front the'snpervis !father. .A good wonlan pltelfiss 4er, ke w,bad.ivite,:or a wicked atep low, about that, replied. Mrs. DIN I read l i ve a great:many s.....b*Aes, _and . many songs. shputZtlipinothers, always wkekedt erne!. creatures. , e,, perhapi thsse itoiies'and songs !lave yon ever hnoivn.auelf dread. iersl , . . i Are. better.% could bese! terete d per! *kin Of their Bell, eau ne mother.. / don't kn tartly. heard tvgr • aad.,they 121. -Ent Aunt are Untrue. ful etepruo can't sa people hat !have ; for-I never asso r eints he debase themselves bi'seeond maniages. . 1344 Auntil You b 11isint111- ejaeli ilitid4r. , V . , far th 4 , arguirnent now mairialfr. -Green instead . : of. ' l ould yoa . ase h• t • , c the ladp _with; a start' and 'ell if lavas wean anougli toil:um *" e, I should ba bad - etiougli to ry . ,oecond do aitything: Allan ig,Td;—ina spoko of other_ niit- Lets. . ; seemed to aurae atanurtaie his youri - m -Meiross nn ; interested listner to, all they , How Well he rernitinbe:ed that roam . ° 3•,ttid 'the ' • I or, Its rni in said, 1,n3 witch .the natural bias or 'hum= rnostrniuute,partte_c _I fu gs r And Lure, Ittonclutitki that the woman was „right.--;- -that Cushions chair, arrtand which, he, played After f his father -.left, he toolt.npia - rtnnity:4o , hottiFivitire its Pattiniac.tupant smiled enquire , of his; aunt whg-04Prafderl'vergt" hint andansnerecthis innuriiera, how the* were..vtint-ikAehayo toward beside Fhich hi wept, when that thihiren; and_Ors. - ..tilisTrepeitettla -waitedf,ice,Tgreci haigir4-wit t li,suffering, and horriiile tales. 'Duct -c: toted` loi-inooris expressed She intensity pain; iiolordas "ditties of" cruel Sreptnothers,”„ttyli.O: . -ilefare - i•hieit he heat, - ivbile,"With her tattenu whlpped. and 4irred"children-'.:Ark deatkiand.[44`liancrs trerabling r apOrt his head, she utter .prevented •MI - e • .p ).oung men : and. women, frommar l I ga ping, sent aces _last er , pod ryinge,:tiie•-.9bjeits ofT - their-Irst true:litre &a. I for , " Antirfhe*ord tit 2 P l nOther seemed Whim toez- :(,:iit'altricittig.iirt that chair, thougli when tit hOarihiCit' wet, p 4 thalAaliaksairit, -Jo 'hie WlYTiocicni7.l.S{e pushed open Pter elbor: Ilipaus. iu his: ed as if suddenly pefilded: The furniture was ' = lull strange:. Every article had been removed, lied Mrs. Ellis '143 an -old eV' , and replaced by modern and more expensive ' ) furnishings. Curtains and carpets were new mother ail the days of her life •' ,r av eolored—the bed was new, arid tl in a dif- IS a father tin he gets a aW, wire,' 1 0 1 (erect position, and that chair—it was not in But never fear 1, iolross, your father is too goo i the mote at ail. a man, ever to place a step mother ,over you I . , A little while he stood with vela open eyes, freq., ' • , , taking in at once the whole room. HiS face Let him if he pleases, cried the child ileflant- I g r ew viente, and he seemed to shrink in size, ly. I Warrant er. Oh I won) like to see one unde rtn ' e te 1 reaction. " His bosom swelled,Lis face flushed, starve'me or w i i: nal can matc h liis e a Y n es Y stdes a P:e:that. j : s e i u r tt s c u re ff d er a in t g vi a ld e se ry i. , er ra a n s t P h as ro m og . li rrh the en pass. e l m g: the bare antiei atiou. ~,, i A `and.seeing hie father hurrying toward Min, , Such being e state of feeling. at lli ' ian '' I 'caught him around his legs, as he sank down 1 the raader may imagine the `storm that arose 1 at his f eet. ' there When about year after Mr. Mann's visitA 1 What has happened Melross. enquired Mr. to 'M. VHS, he received a letter from hitt], Mann, i„ n i ntat . What is the matter my dear announcing VI. t hating. grown weary of the ,'.hey ?.and as he spoke- le raised and carried solitude, land u settled condition of a widow.. I him out upon the lawn. , 1 er's establislim ht, he hadmarried the excellent , Clara, daarghte of the Rev'd Mr. Crowly,both I .e‘rvn_hve're is my mother's chair? asked the boy 1 Why did you let your new safe ee father'and*danAter being asbestirs:knew' 81 .. dead mother's room '1 i I knowa and li i l bly esteemed Ellis.-- ice" tux Wby child! your dear mother' who is in ' Hoping she co id in, his ease conenei her prej tidiee agaiast eoad marriages, lie proposed to I heaven dees not want a room any longer ; . tind to ' your new mamma does. The old furniture I bring las brile to Ellis ' a le a in a fe 7, d . a. Y . s) , i was damaged anti full of sorrowful memories. I pay respect to is dear nuns, and to yeoeve her r .so we put it carefully In an attic, and your lof the trouble f NValting upan little Meiross I 3 ma put new place. 1 ' fromhert der and gen- I new el m . in its . by taking him wain en ,1•4-h* tohi "f ther's h o me of bit ut lite d tu id amina, and she does not love me as After Mts. Ills had exelain Y a;lie P reeated 1 She is not your meanie certainly; God took and wept, accompanied all the time by „illelress i our maxima away to heaven, and I could not ' she began to re' fleet. that she had probably laid 1Y bring her back again. 1 the foundationl• of touch unhappiness,, by the She does not love yon as your own =mina , , bias she had g,iven his young mind; ". and like „,_ ,did, because she is not as your mamma was. too Many prectptors, she now tho ith ' n w t the"— I She sweet lady, was always ill. She knew she I teract the current ;by telling him th'at since 1 , , .. -a i ugoodcould not be . with us long, and her, whole heart his father had marrie ie mst lie's Loy, .t c tone oecupation was to love us. Your new and not do any thing, to make his step ,mother { mother is occupied,with work, company - i-and a i him,d 1 ' I as she really was 1 . divide hate an F. Lien per lops, great many things, that her attention._ ;a good g irl ' ' k w "aid lice nnmfartabl - - with : She 'does not love me as your mamma did ;--- `herA : ed then slie * said to herself, I donot like'; would not love her own eilidroa as Year plata: ita loved you. - 1 to snow disrespect to Clain creWV;".-and yet 1 H own c hildren! will she have • own chit: ` I cannot"coun.enanee second mariiages. by re- 1 - , i. ,eeitio2,,her kindly as mre. .Thum. I m en seed ,dren . cried the boy, springi . ng fro . m his • fathefs ' 'sidestanding strait•up before him, Will she "elm" Being, la chlrge of mY farmer; saYing !children to rob me of your :love; and my that as he WAS going that way, and the child i have to• et home was'eager g i Iconcluded to let him right to •Y ear P re P e d not I 31elrossi—eny child,—you astonish um. Do gnz. Mr' Mann will understand it' -an "not n ot gents-lovep alt their children if they have bring his "'briiie" here, to provoke Me. Brelress took leave of his dear,geod aunt., a d rt n y l , d what right Wive '.7 0 11 to my l i and play-kilo l ' s with a few tears;` but antiel* l i"Pe j n ' of vou d r owe sang: motor. p ' f 1 "e , pleasant ride and ti: beefing Am e , whom -. vr il i t t i li " li s is ° f,ith a e no allied tvith feuriosity tom i Test You are my own dear, little, boy; h • .1. hi m b rave ly. II have loved= prim ed .everything a terrible ste mower, sustained His father ha written to Mrs. Ellis manttimes Ita . MY f el ' , ever since :I first saw tte babe. And the !awe directs that when a you, a helpless and requested her to tell 3lelross , of setae int- IIA movement which 'he had made, inbis-house,, I an dead, his children shall have the prop. M is_dead, i ~. c , .. grounds, °Tel aids, or - shrub ' d n should inherit'his earnings than that they trery;- hi almost I arty be loaves, because he rather nts own nu. -- 17,--- expected to find quite" a! re 1 everl letter: se"')- —-• I should go 'to strangers, Consider mY hoY 1 - ( l r change, in th , appearance of the' homestead* had . ar.. . 0 in n , en 44 arr , . . `,lnt wiles) the npproiched thir house, he could i -onlY title oey wh had only w, M ei lett clothes,.ta Iscarcelylecogn' ate it, or its Surroundings,' Ati IYear dear mamma and she ~onlY I' . addition to the main haildlog, tasteful pia as,lWe wOrkedruid teenaged* =I , til Itefe i l a. " l , and porches; with `a fresh coat paiutrand and laed then Iliad to masagerana won! `alone.:',: osr:, ' Win& On the old part'. a leeel'd lawitt hiveheeu fortunate* my;work.has Pr Po Oreea , . ' . 1 with blossonald shrubs, suffoutidee by a Iwhtte um rieh itt eomParisou with mY heghta thino irlge bn. 4 *fugal? friadt.; and new dispOsitlons of-fields You "nip, and-brought ate _uo • _, , i - i't