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...see him, for I would not look up, I was reading that beautiful passage for the first time — ' 'Twas ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest...tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.' So it is with him ; but how much worse than with Isabella ! Yet I do not blame him so much ; I know...

...— to-night I I knew, I knexv it could not last — 'Twas bright, 'twas heavenly, but 'tis past ! Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never nurs'da dear gazelle, To glad me with its soft black eye. But when it came to know me well, And love...

...Mary at the tomb of the resurrection ? HOME-SICKNESS AND THE HOMEWABD WAY. BY GOTTLIEB GRACBART. III. Oh ! ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my...flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. I never loved a dear gazelle. To glad me with iu soft black eye, But when it carne to know me well, And love...

...lines : — " Oh : ever thns from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never nurst a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away. ' I never nurs'da dear gazelle To glad me with its bright black eye, But when it came to know me well, And love...

...— to-night! " 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 loved a tree or flow'r, '• But 'twas the first to f:ide away. " I never nursed a dear gazelle, "To glad me with its...

...had but just elapsed since the decease of my beloved wife, and I began sensibly to feel that " 'Twas ever thus ; from childhood's hour I've seen my fondest hopes decay ; I never loved a plant or flower But it was first to fade away ; I never nursed a dear gazelle, To soothe me with its...

...way a favourite; and I never look upon their evanescent beauties without exclaiming, with Moore, * fc I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away." Annuals are for the most part sown so thickly in the open border, that the plants smother each other...

...as follows : — " I knew, 1 knew it could not last — 'Twos bright, 'twas heav'nly, but 'tis pastl 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 me with...

...contemplating the same chimera, which are not six of one and half-a-dozen of the other : we all know that we " Never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away i." but my disappointments have extended still further, for in the " sweet South,'' though I used to devote...