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The murmurous love of the wind.

But when 'neath the heavy tresses
That swept o'er the dying day,
The star of the eve like a lover
Was hiding his blushes away,
As we came to a mournful river
That flowed to a lovely shore,
"Oh, sister," he said, "I am weary--
I cannot go back any more!"
And seeing that round about him
The wings of the angels shone--
I parted the locks from his forehead
And kissed him and left him alone.
But a shadow comes over my spirit
Whenever I think of the hours
I trusted his feet to the pathway
That winds through eternity's flowers.

THE ENEMY OF VIRGINIA.

WRITTEN FOR THE INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE BY ASA SMITH, M. D.

The London _Examiner_, in reviewing Mr. McCulloch's new work on Wages,
etc., seems to be displeased that the author should have expressed
himself against the cultivation and use of tobacco, using the following
language in its defence: "We quarrel," says the _Examiner_, "with Mr.
McCulloch, for bestowing offensive epithets on tobacco, which he is
pleased to call 'this filthy and offensive stimulant.' Why it should be
more filthy to take a pinch of snuff or a whiff of tobacco smoke, than
to swallow a quart of port wine, is not to us intelligible. Of all the
stimulants that men have had recourse to, tea and coffee excepted,
tobacco is the least pernicious. For the life of you, you cannot get
drunk on it, however well disposed, and no man or woman has ever been
charged with committing a crime under its influence--save only the
factitious crime created by an irrational and excessive duty. For the
best part of three centuries, all the nations of the earth have been
using tobacco--saint, savage, and sage, being among the consumers."

The _Examiner_ may quarrel with Mr. McCulloch for abusing the "weed," if
it pleases, but it is a weak argument, if argument it can be called, to
say that because taking a pinch of snuff, or a whiff of tobacco, is no
worse than taking a quart of port wine, therefore the use of tobacco is
good; or because tobacco is the least pernicious of all the stimulants,
therefore it is not objectionable; or because one cannot get drunk on
it, (which, by the way, is a great mistake,) or because for the best
part of three centuries all the nations of the earth have been using
tobacco--saint, savage and sage--therefore it is not a "filthy and
offensive stimulant." The real o