d the bright beams of summer unceasingly shine.
But I know a sweet valley, a beautiful spot,
Where the turf is so green, and the breezes are bland;
And methinks, if you'll share there my ivy-crowned cot,
There'll be no place on earth like my own native land.

A palace 'neath Italy's star-covered sky,
Unblest by thy presence would desolate be;
But cheered by the light of thy soft beaming eye,
Ah! sweet were a tent in the desert with thee.
For 'tis love--O! 'tis love which thus hallows the ground,
And brightens the gloom of the anchorite's cell;
And the Eden of earth--wheresoe'er it be found--
Is the spot where the heart's cherished idol doth dwell.

Then come to my cottage--though cool be the shade,
And verdant the sod 'neath the wide-spreading bough--
Where the wood-dove its nest 'mid the foliage hath made,
Yet lone is that cottage, and desolate now.
For as the green forest, bereft of the dove,
No more with sweet echoes would musical be--
Even so is the rose-mantled bower of love,
Unblest and uncheered, if not gladdened by thee.

A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM

BY C. A. WASHBURN.

I dreamed that for a long time I courted Charlotte--what need of
dreaming? It was true. Nevertheless I dreamed that for a long time I
courted Charlotte, and at last, which was not true, married her. And I
thought that Charlotte and I lived very happily together.

She loved me better than she ever thought she could before we were
married, for I loved her exceedingly, and was very kind to her.

I remember how long it was that I wooed her. Always hoping, though
sometimes fearing that she would never love me so as to marry me; how,
when at last we were married, and I carried her home to my pretty
cottage, I could hardly contain myself for joy; and when I saw her
seated in our own parlor on the wedding eve, I could not keep a tear
from trickling down my cheek; and how she kissed away the tear, and
when she knew the cause, how she burst into a flood of tears, and said
she would love me the better for my having loved her so; and how that
we were from that time wholly united in heart and sympathy.

Then, in the course of time, we had two darling children, which we
both loved--and I thought my cup of happiness completed. I had been an
ambitious man in my youth, and had experienced much of the
disappointment incident to a life for fame. But wh