. Oracles from the poets: a fanciful diversion for the drawing room. WHERE AND WHAT WILL BE YOUR RESIDENCE? A summer Lodge amid the wild. Rkyant. K ORACLES FROM THE POETS A FANCIFUL DIVERSION \ \ THE DRAWING-ROOM CAROLINE GILMAN, The enthusiast Sybil there divinely taught,Writes on loose foliage inspirotions sings the fates, and in her frantic fitsThe notes and names inscribed to leaves commits. Dry dens and Symmons Virgil. Macbeth. I conjure you, by that which you profess,\ (Howeer you come to know it,) answer me. \ First Witch. Speak. \ Second Witch. Demand. Third Witch. Well ans
. Oracles from the poets: a fanciful diversion for the drawing room. WHERE AND WHAT WILL BE YOUR RESIDENCE? A summer Lodge amid the wild. Rkyant. K ORACLES FROM THE POETS A FANCIFUL DIVERSION \ \ THE DRAWING-ROOM CAROLINE GILMAN, The enthusiast Sybil there divinely taught,Writes on loose foliage inspirotions sings the fates, and in her frantic fitsThe notes and names inscribed to leaves commits. Dry dens and Symmons Virgil. Macbeth. I conjure you, by that which you profess,\ (Howeer you come to know it,) answer me. \ First Witch. Speak. \ Second Witch. Demand. Third Witch. Well answer. NEW YORK & LONDON:WILEY AND PUTNAM Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1844, By WILEY & PUTNAM, In the Clerks Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. i Stereotyped by i RICHARD C. VALENTINE, < 45 Gold-street, New York. I THE FOLLOWING PAGES, \ ORIGINALLY INTENDED FOR THEIR AMUSEMENT, \ ARE DEDICATED TO MY CHILDREN. 8& i. PREFACE. WAS led to arrange The Ora-cles from the Poets, by observ-ing the vivid interest taken bypersons of all ages in a very com-mon-place Fortune-Teller in thehands of a young girl. It occur-red to me that I might avail myself of this loveof the mysterious, for the intellectual enjoyment ofmy family circle. \ Instead, however, of the pastime of a few days, \it has been the work of every leisure moment for \six months. The first movement was the pebble \thrown into the stream ; circle after circle formed,j until I found, with old Thomas Heywood, My pen was diptAs well in opening each hid manuscript,As tracts more vulgar, whether read or sungIn our domestic or more foreign tongue. | How rich these six months have been in theI purest and highest enjoyment, I will not stop toi say; but to be allowed to float in such an atmo-sphere, buoyed up with the sweetest sympathiesof friends, may be conceived to be no common I\ happiness. And now, with the hope of commu-\ nicating a portion
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