...utter bereavement as the door of future intercourse was being closed ad cternnm. ' Oh ! 'tis ever tlnis from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the 6rst to fade away !' " These simple lines M'Dermott uttered with a pathos of feeling genuine and sacred....

...September 1820 S. 2 A ntommarchi, vol. i., p. 339. 3 Autommarchi, vol. i., p. 363. * " 'Twas ever tbus— from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But was the first to fade away." of energy. The bed, he said, was now a place of luxury, which he would...

...wreck of its cherished hopes, and not be foreed to exclaim, with the inspired poet: 11 Twas always thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay— I never had n pretty dog, Rut it was sure to run away. I never had a piece of tonst. Particularly good and...

...forgotten, and he could have said, as a woman has since been made to My: " I never loved a tree nor flower But 'twas the first to fade away; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its full, dark eye, But when it came to know me well, And love me — it was sure to die." But he was soon...

...to-night 1 " I knew, I knew it could not last — " 'Twas bright, 'twas heav'nly, but 'tis past ! " Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, " I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; " I never lov'da tree or flow'r, " But 'twas the first to fade away. " I never nurs'da dear gazelle, " To glad...

...too, " Father, forgive the sinful ones, They know not what they do !" 8* SURELY TO THEE, MY ROSE. ' I never loved a tree, or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." " SURELY to thee, my rose, Harm can come never ;" Thus did I fondly say, Tending it ever. Lovely its...

...fleetest ;" followed by a now-forgotten announcement, made by some obscure Eastern lady, one who — " Never loved a tree or flower But 'twas the first to fade away ;" together with a poetical reference to the dark eye of a certain graceful animal, who was sure to...

...into every action of a man's life. ORIGINAL, TALK OF THE ABSENT LOVER. BT KDWARD MATDRIir. " 'Twas ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay — I never nurs'da tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." — LAM A ROOKH. " Remember you not the...

...Mr. Lock. 1 His desponding expressions remind one of those touching lines : " Oh ! ever thus, since childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. 1 never nursed a dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye, But when it came to know me well,...

...to-night ! ' I knew, I knew it could not last — ' 'Twas bright, 'twas hcav'nly, but 'tis past ! ' Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, " I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; 1 1 never loved a tree or flow'r, " But 'twas the first to fade away. ' I never nursed a dear gazelle,...