Down by the fountain, where you seated you "It was, my love, And there, as I remember, your kind arm "No, believe me, "You're a dear child!" "And then To gaze on such a scene! the grassy bank, So gently sloping to the rivulet, All purple with my own dear violet, And sprinkled o'er with spring flowers of each tint. The fairy-form'd, flesh-hued anemone, With its fair sisters, called by country people Fair maids o' the spring. The lowly cinquefoil too, The violet sorrel And her companion of the season, dress'd "Did you see all those flowers? I mark'd them not." "Oh, many more, whose names I have not learn'd! Roaming about like an enchanted thing, Where the white blossom of the dogwood met "I dream'd not of these sights or sounds.” Beyond the brook there lay a narrow strip, "Then just Was crowned with rose-bay. Halfway down there stood, As ready to leap down unto her lover "Tut! enough, enough, Your madcap fancy runs too riot, girl. "Will you shut The book of Nature, too?—for it is that "Well, well, we'll see. But we neglect our lecture "Poor Red Riding Hood! We had forgotten her; yet mark, dear madam, How patiently the poor thing waits our leisure. And now the hidden moral." "Thus it is: The wolf that you must guard against is-LOVE.” "I thought love was an infant; 'toujours enfant.'" "The world and love were young together, child, And innocent-alas! time changes all things." True, I remember, love is now a man, And, the song says, 'a very saucy one,'But how a wolf?" "In ravenous appetite, Unpitying and unsparing, passion is oft Is he to innocence." "I shall remember, For now I see the moral. Trust me, madam, Should I e'er meet this wolf-love in my way, Be he a boy or man, I'll take good heed, And hold no converse with him." "You'll do wisely." "Nor e'er in field or forest, plain or pathway, Shall he from me know whither I am going, Or whisper that he'll meet me." "That's my child." "Nor in my grandam's cottage, nor elsewhere, Will I e'er lift the latch for him myself, Or bid him pull the bobbin." You've learned your lesson." Somewhat perplexes me." "Well, my dear, "Yet one thing, my mother, I will explain." "Say what, my love "This wolf, the story goes, Deceived poor grandam, and ate her up: What is the moral here? Have all our grandams Been first devour'd by love?" "Let us go in; The air grows cold; you are a forward chit." LENORE. E. A. POE. AH! broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown for ever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now, or never more! See, on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love Lenore! Come, let the burial rite be read, the funeral song be sung; An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young, A dirge for her, the doubly dead, in that she died so young. "Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth, and hated her for her pride, And when she fell in feeble health ye blessed her, that she died! How shall the ritual, then, be read-the requiem how be sung, By you-by yours, the evil eye-by yours, the slanderous tongue, That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?" "Thus it is: Mere children read such stories literally, The wolf that you must guard against is-LOVE." "I thought love was an infant; 'toujours enfant." "The world and love were young together, child, And innocent-alas! time changes all things." "True, I remember, love is now a man, And, the song says, 'a very saucy one,'But how a wolf?" "In ravenous appetite, Unpitying and unsparing, passion is oft A beast of prey. As the wolf to the lamb, Is he to innocence." "I shall remember, For now I see the moral. Trust me, madam, Should I e'er meet this wolf-love in my way, Be he a boy or man, I'll take good heed, "You'll do wisely." "Nor e'er in field or forest, plain or pathway, Shall he from me know whither I am going, Or whisper that he'll meet me." "Nor in my grandam's cottage, nor elsewhere, Will I e'er lift the latch for him myself, Or bid him pull the bobbin." You've learned your lesson." Somewhat perplexes me." "Well, my dear, "Yet one thing, my mother, |