UNREQUITED LOVE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XV, Issue 5065, 9 February 1878, Page 6

UNREQUITED LOVE.

She never told her virgin love, But held it close within her breast; And, hapless maiden, learned to prove How that unbidden tyrant guest Can strange, unquiet passions move To mar the mind's soft, tranquil rest. All lightiomeness of look was gone,— Save where the sorrowing smile was lent, That told of joy for ever flown ; And on her secret grief intent, She silent, brooding, sat alone— " Like Patience on a monument." And oft adown her pallid check The pearly tear would silent steal, And oft her eyes, npglancing meek To Heaven, would make their muto appeal; But ne'er did voice her sorrow speak— Her heart's sad mystery reveal I And woful wan those features now, With radiant beauty once so fair, And dim the eye, and *ad the brow, The cheek all sunk in pale despair. Save where the lurid, hectic glow Showed dire consumption settled there. No, she did ne'er her love disclose, But hid it close within her breast; Till, " like a worm within the rose," Upon the springs of life it pressed, And in the silent grave's repose Her weary pilgrimage had rest.

' Lost—ln Colorado on Tuesday, October 2, a grand opportunity. Any State finding the same will please report to many women, who are disappointed but not discouraged, and who will light it out on some line, i£ it takes a century. Advertising is a good thing, but whea a prominent grocer carried to a funeral an umbrella on which was painted conspicuously the business of his house, antl held it over the preacher's head while he read his prayers, the bystanders thought he was running the thing in the ground. Sold.—Cheap.—Little Brown (to "Nigger Minstrel," who always addresses his listeners as "My lord ") : " Ah, how did you know my——ah how did yoa know I was a lord t" (Sensation among the bystanders !) Minstrel: " Bless yer, my lord, I never lose sight o' my schoolfellers 1" (Roars of laughter. Little B. caveß in and bolts !) " Skip the hard words, honey dear," said an Irish schoolmistress to one of her pupils; " they are only the names of foreign countries, and you will never be in lihem,"