<span style="color:grey">it, like terpillar, eats

    <span style="color:grey">test book, the rose.

    It is a common practice lived tibility of early feeling, or  up in tlessness of dissipated life, to laug all love stories, and to treat tales of romantic passion as mere ?ctions of novelists and poets. My observations on ure o t, er may be civated into mere smiles by ts of society, still t ?res lurking in t bosom, imes desolating in ts. Indeed, I am a true believer in ty, and go to tent of rines. S?--I believe in broken s, and ty of dying of disappointed love! I do not,  a malady often fatal to my o I ?rmly believe t it o an early grave.

    Man is ture of interest and ambition. ure leads o truggle and bustle of t t of ervals of ts. une for space in t, and dominion over  a   ions. t is  is tion strives for empire--it is treasures. Sure; sraf?c of affection; and if s is a bankruptcy of t.

    to a man, tment of love may occasion some bitter pangs; it enderness--it blasts some prospects of felicity; but ive being--e s in tion, or may plunge into tide of pleasure; or, if tment be too full of painful associations,   aking, as it ;?y to ttermost parts of t rest.quot;

    But ively a ?xed, a secluded, and meditative life. Ss and feelings; and if turned to ministers of sorroo be ress t ured, and sacked, and abandoned, and left desolate.

    eyes groomb, and none can tell t bligs o its side, and cover and conceal t is preying on its vitals--so is it ture of o ion. te female is ale, s to  s it co  cence is at an end.

    Ss all ts, quicken tide of life in s t is broken--t refres of sleep is poisoned by melanc;dry sorroil est external injury. Look for er a little  one, ely gloy, s doo quot;darkness and t; You old of some ry cion, t laid  no one knoal malady o the spoiler.

    Sender tree, ty of ts form, brigs foliage, but  its . e ?nd it suddenly  s fres. e see it drooping its branco til, ed and peris falls even in tillness of t; and as iful ruin, rive in vain to recollect t or t t could ten it h decay.

    I ances of o e and self-neglect, and disappearing gradually from t as if to edly fancied t I could trace tion, cold, debility, languor, melancil I reac symptom of disappointed love. But an instance of tely told to me; tances are ry ed.

    Every one must recollect tragical story of young E----, triot; it oo touco be soon forgotten. During troubles in Ireland, ried, condemned, and executed, on a creason. e made a deep impression on public sympatelligent--so generous--so brave--so every t  to like in a young man.  under trial, too, y and intrepid. tion reason against ry--t vindication of ic appeal to posterity, in tion, --all tered deeply into every generous bosom, and even ed tern policy t dictated ion.

    But t o describe. In unes, ions of a beautiful and interesting girl, ter of a late celebrated Iriser. Serested fervor of a  and early love. self against ed in fortune, and disgrace and danger darkened around ly for e could a must  tell omb suddenly closed bet loved on eart at its t out in a cold and lonely  lovely and loving ed.

    But tful, so diso d could sootion--none of tender, tances o melt sorroo tears, sent like to revive t in ting hour of anguish.

    to render uation more desolate, sunate attac, and al roof. But could t so s of consolation, for ties. t delicate and ctentions ion. So society, and tried by all kinds of occupation and amusement to dissipate ragical story of  it rokes of calamity t scatrate to tal seat of  it, never again to put forth bud or blossom.

    Sed to frequent ts of pleasure, but  in a sad revery, apparently unconscious of t mocked at all ts of friends; t;

    told me ory  a masquerade.

    tion of far-gone criking and painful to meet it in suco ?nd it re, lonely and joyless,  dressed out in trappings of mirt ried in vain to c t into momentary forgetfulness of sorroer strolling tter abstraction, s eps of an orcra, and, looking about for some time  air, t sy to t, to tle plaintive air. Se, voice; but on t ouc breatc se and silent, around ed every one into tears.

    tory of one so true and tender could not but excite great interest in a country remarkable for ent completely  of a brave of?cer,  one so true to t but prove affectionate to ttentions, for s ed in . ed not enderness, but eem. ed by ion of itute and dependent situation, for sing on t lengt  erably anothers.

    ook o Sicily,  a c  t to be a  not and devouring melanc ered into ed a  lengto tim of a broken .

    It inguis, composed the following lines:

    <span style="color:grey">She land where her young hero sleeps,

    <span style="color:grey">But coldly surns from their gaze, and weeps,

    <span style="color:grey">Sive plains,

    <span style="color:grey">Atle t in rains,

    <span style="color:grey"> of trel is breaking!

    <span style="color:grey">ry he died,

    <span style="color:grey">t to life wined him--

    <span style="color:grey">Nor soon sears of ry be dried,

    <span style="color:grey">O,

    <span style="color:grey">t,