...themselves would have failed to render in its earnest, innocent, elevated regard. She was very young — Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet — Womanhood and childhood fleet. Good Heavens, I am quoting poetry '. what will you think of me, Hervey, to have gone back to our Wertherian...

...banks of the Ohio. District of Columbia. D. MAIDENHOOD. Maiden! with the meek, brown eyea, In vt hose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou, whose locks outsliinc the sun. Golden tresses, wreathed in one. As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with...

...die." Selected. INNOCENCE. BY BW LONGFELLOW, ESO. With an EngraTing. INNOcENcE ! with meek, brown eye* In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Seest thou shadows sailing by As the dove with startled eye, Sees the falcon's shadow fly? Hearest...

...pianofortes sent out from Europe abide the climate of the New World. — CHAPTER VIH. — THE FIRST SORROW. Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet. LONGFELLOW. IDA was no longer a child. Seventeen years and six months had done their best to rob her...

...Your learning, like the lunar beam, affords Light, but not heat. Maiden ! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening...tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Bear through sorrow, wrong, and ruth, In thy heart the dew of youth, On thy lips the smile of truth....

...STORY OF A FAMILY.' BY SM AUTHORESS ОГ "THE MAIDEN AUNT," ETC. CHAPTER VII.— THE FIRST SORROW. " Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood licet." LONGFELLOW. IDA was no longer a child. Seventeen years and six months had done their best to...

...Knowledge will banish panic. —Nintli licport : Reg. Gen. MAIDENHOOD. MAIDEX with the meek brown eye?, In whose orbs a shadow lies, Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou, whose locks outshine tho inn, Golden tresses, wreathed in one. As the braided streamlets run ! Standing, with reluctant...

...maturity, than every true Yalensian, as he sees our dear Maga putting on the first year of maidenhood — " Standing, with reluctant feet. Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet." It ia really something to boast of, that we have reared our favorite to such an age ; and we can now...

...the mock, brown eyes, In whose orb a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies ! Thou whose looks outshine the sun, Golden tresses, wreathed in one, As the braided streamlets run ! Gazing, with a timid glance, On the brooklet's swift advance, On the river's broad expanse. Deep...

...unrestrained gaiety, into those sensitive, imaginative years, which form the threshold of graver life — " Standing with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood sweet." " But, mother," exclaimed Alice Aytoun, suddenly, " Miss Douglas will see at once that Bessie...