--
Or, likelier far, alas! the sorrowing child
Of restless anguish, and baptized in tears--
Or wrung from Genius even amid the throes
Of worse than death--Ye gaze and ye admire,
Nor pause to ask what it hath cost the heart
That gave it being!

_Blackwood's Magazine._

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Romance is ever readier
To make unbidden sacrifice, than rear
The sober edifice of mutual bliss! Ibid.

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TRUE PATRIOTISM.

Promote religion--protect public morals--repress vice and
infidelity--keep the different classes of the community in strict
subordination to each other--and cherish the principles, feelings, and
habits, which give stability, beauty, and happiness to society.

Descend from the clouds of political economy, and travel in safety on
your mother earth; cast away the blinding spectacles of the
philosophers, and use the eyes you have received from nature. Practise
the vulgar principles, that it is erroneous to ruin immense good
markets, to gain petty bad ones--that you cannot carry on losing
trade--that you cannot live without profit--and that you cannot eat
without income. And pule no more about individual economy, but eat, and
drink, and enjoy yourselves, like your fathers. What! in these days of
free trade, to tell the hypochondriacal Englishman that the foaming
tankard, the honest bottle of port, and the savoury sirloin, must be
prohibited articles! You surely wish us to hang and drown ourselves by
wholesale.--Ibid.

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THE FORGET-ME-NOT.

The following account of the origin of the name "Forget-me-not," is
extracted from Mill's _History of Chivalry_, and was communicated to
that work by Dr. A.T. Thomson:--"Two lovers were loitering on the margin
of a lake on a fine summer's evening, when the maiden espied some of the
flowers of Myosotis growing on the water, close to the bank of an
island, at some distance from the shore. She expressed a desire to
possess them, when the knight, in the true spirit of chivalry, plunged
into the water, and swimming to the spot, cropped the wished for plant,
but his strength was unable to fulfill the object of his achievement,
and feeling that he could not regain the shore, although very near it,
he threw the flowers upon the bank, and casting a last affectionate look
upon his lady-love, he cried 'Forget me not!' and was buried in the
waters."--