nd my shepherdess?

Thou fool (said Love), know'st thou not this,--
In everything that's good she is:
In yonder tulip go and seek;
There thou mayst find her lip, her cheek.

In yonder enameled pansy by,
There thou shalt have her curious eye;
In bloom of peach, in rosy bud,
There wave the streamers of her blood;

In brightest lilies that there stands,
The emblems of her whiter hands;
In yonder rising hill there swells
Such sweets as in her bosom dwells.

'Tis true (said I), and thereupon
I went to pluck them one by one,
To make of parts a union;
But on a sudden all was gone.

With that I stopped. Said Love, These be
(Fond man) resemblances of thee;
And in these flowers thy joys shall die,
Even in the twinkling of an eye,
And all thy hopes of her shall wither,
Like these short sweets thus knit together.

[1] Attributed to Herrick in Drake's 'Literary Hours.'

EMILIA FLYGARE-CARLEN

(1807-1892)

[Illustration: EMILIA CARLEN]

Emilia Smith Flygare-Carlen was born at Stroemstad, Sweden, August 8th,
1807. She was the daughter of Rutger Smith, a merchant of that place,
and here her childhood was passed, varied by frequent sea trips with
her father, and excursions to different parts of the coast. It was
probably these early maritime experiences that laid the foundation of
her accurate knowledge of the character and habits of the Swedish
fisherfolk. In 1827 she was married to Dr. Flygare, a physician of
Kronbergslaen, but after his death in 1833 she returned to her native
place. As a child her talent for imaginative literature was known
among her friends, but nothing of any permanent value was developed
until after her thirtieth year, when her first novel, 'Waldemar
Klein,' was published anonymously (1838). After this first successful
literary attempt, she went to Stockholm upon the advice of her father
(1839), and shortly after she was married to a lawyer of that city,
Johan Gabriel Carlen, a Swedish poet and author. Her novels appeared
in quick succession; she at once became popular, and her books were
widely read. Her productivity was remarkable. The period of her
highest accomplishment was from 1838 to 1852, when a great affliction
in the loss of her son suspended her activities for several years. It
was not until 1858 that she again resumed her writing.

She was honored by the gold medal of the Swedish Academy (1862), and
the success of her books