Part 51

6. LADY.--There's little that you care for now, Except a simple wedding ring.

THOMAS MILLER.

7. Fruits that have just begun To flush on the side that is next the sun.

H. F. GOULD.

8. GENTLEMAN.--You do wish that you could be A sailor, on the rolling sea; In the shadow of the sails You would ride and rock all day, Going whither blow the gales, As you've heard the seamen say.

L. S. NOBLE.

8. LADY.--By the low cradle thou delight'st to sit Of sleeping infants, watching their soft breath.

CHARLOTTE SMITH.

9. You like a ring, an ancient ring, Of massive form, and virgin gold; As firm, as free from base alloy As were the sterling hearts of old.

G. W. DOANE.

10. There's a room you love dearly, the sanctum of bliss, That holds all the comforts you least like to miss; Where, like ants in a hillock, you run in and out, Where sticks grace the corner, and hats lie about, With book-shelves, where tomes of all sizes are spread, Not placed to be look'd at, but meant to be read.

ELIZA COOK.

11. GENTLEMAN.--Ah, how glorious to be free, Your good dog by your side, With rifle hanging on your arm, To range the forest wide.

E. PEABODY.

11. LADY.-- To look into the smooth Clear glass, Where as you bend to look, just opposite, A shape within the polish'd frame appears Bending to look on you.

MILTON, modified.

12. Your sociable piazza,--you prize its quiet talk, When arm in arm with one you love you tread the accustom'd walk, Or loll within your rocking-chair, not over nice or wise, And yield the careless confidence where heart to heart replies.

MRS. GILMAN.

13. An eye that will mark Your coming, and look brighter when you come.

BYRON.

14. Give you a slight flirtation, By the light of a chandelier, With music to fill up the pauses And nobody very near.

N. P. WILLIS.

15. Give all things else their honor due, But gooseberry-pie is best.

SOUTHEY.

16. An ever drizzling raine upon the lofte, Mixt with a murmuring winde, much like the sownde Of murmuring bees.

SPENSER--Fairy Queen.

17. Oh, sweeter than the marriage feast, 'Tis sweeter far to thee, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company.

COLERIDGE--Ancient Mariner.