HIS VALENTINE.
Ah I Will she be my valentine,
And dare I hope for, yes !
And will she in these arms recline
While kisses I impress?
Or shall my wandering missive be
Received with cold disdain ;
And thus bid every hope to flee
And leave despair remain?
Long have I waited for this hour
That grants to all the right,
To use the poet's vivid power,
To tell of fond love's might.
To pour forth all the heart's desire
In burning words of rhyme;
'l'o tell to what you dare aspire
In thoughts that are sublime.
Ah I Should I be a coward though
Thus fearing to declare
My love to her whom I have sought
My hearth and home to share.
In a direct and fond appeal
On beaded knees before,
And swear that I would take for weal
Or woe, for evermore.
How foolish that such thoughts should rise
To haunt me while I wait;
To cause distrust of her I prize
To make me fear my fate.
No thought have I that by delay
I've lost all that seems so dear :
Or that some other one might say
" Be mine my life to cheer."
I'll bid the thoughts begone from me,
Bid Hope her pinions spread;
And shame, distrust, and cause to flee
All doubt, all fear, all dread.
For how can she who surely knows.,
My heart is all her own,
Thus to some other one dispose
Of that which I would own ?
Delay and cowardice receive
Their just reward at last;
For, by St. Valentine, I grieve
To say his hopes were past.
No more dare he now hope to gain
His darling's kind regard:
For he received with just disdain
Her thanks and wedding card.
THE FRE
E LANCE.
In the next to the last paragraph of the
article on the Stereoscope in February FREE
LANCE there was an omission of several lines,
which completely obscures the meaning of the
paragraph, and, to a considerable extent, of
the entire article, since this paragraph was
partly a summary approaching a conclusion.,
The explanation is left obscure, or, rather,
false, from the sequence of clauses arising
from the omission.
After " Hence one set of criteria;" insert
the mathematical, liglat, and aerial perspectives
which the artist has cunningly used, tells us
that the objects are solids, while the other
criterion, etc.
Also, in line 12, column r, page 269, for
conveyed, read converged ; omit and in
second line of same column many typographi
cal errors (forming grammatical errors) the
reader will readily correct.
THE treaty of Paris, concluded in 1763, left
I England by far the most powerful of all
nations: Under the guidance of the "elder"
Pitt her arms had won successive victories in
both hemispheres, had crippled or broken the
power of all rivals, and left Britannia more
truly a " mistress of the world " than ever be
fore or since. Thus had ended the struggle
in which France had been the chief adver
sary of Britain, and dominion in the New
World the chief prize to be gained. And the
power of France was
,so completely crushed,
that upon the verge of bankruptcy, and de
spoiled of all hope of western empire, she
could only helplessly nurse her old bitter feel
ing for the Briton and await the opportunity
for revenge.
In the meantime George 111, had ascended
the English throne, and his tory obstinacy
A CORRECTION
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FRANKLIN'S MISSION IN FRANCE.