Graham's magazine . GRAHAMS MAGAZINE. Vol. XX PHILADELPHIA: JANUARY, 1842. No. 1. THE SHEPHERDS LOVE. BY J. H. DANA. CHAPTER I. It was a golden morning in early summer, and athousand birds were warbling on the landscape,while the balmy wind murmured low and musicalamong the leaves, when a young girl, attired in arustic dress, might have been seen tripping over thelea. Her golden tresses, as she walked, floated onthe wind, and the exercise had called e~ en a richercarnation than usual to her cheek. Her form wasone of rare beauty, and her gait was grace she glided on, more like a sylph
Graham's magazine . GRAHAMS MAGAZINE. Vol. XX PHILADELPHIA: JANUARY, 1842. No. 1. THE SHEPHERDS LOVE. BY J. H. DANA. CHAPTER I. It was a golden morning in early summer, and athousand birds were warbling on the landscape,while the balmy wind murmured low and musicalamong the leaves, when a young girl, attired in arustic dress, might have been seen tripping over thelea. Her golden tresses, as she walked, floated onthe wind, and the exercise had called e~ en a richercarnation than usual to her cheek. Her form wasone of rare beauty, and her gait was grace she glided on, more like a sylph than a mortalbeing, she carolled one of h ..rys simple lays; and what wit her liquid tl , ner sweet counte-nance, and her bewitching motion, she formed apicture of loveliness such only as a poet could haveimagined. At length she approached a ruined wall, half hiddenby one or two overshadowing trees. The enclosurepartially concealed from view the figure of a youngshepherd, who, leaning on his hand, gazed ad-miringly
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