. The century illustrated monthly magazine . TO THE MEMORY OF H. H. OSOUL of fire within a womans clay!Lifting with slender hands a races wrong,Whose mute appeal hushed all thine early song,And taught thy passionate heart the loftier way; What shall thy place be, in the realms of day ? What disembodied world can hold thee long,Binding that turbulent pulse with spell more strong?Dwellst thou, with wit and jest, where poets may? Or with ethereal women (born of air And poets dreams) dost live in ecstasy, Teach new love-thoughts to Shaksperes Juliet fair, New moods to Cleopatra ? Then, may be, The
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . TO THE MEMORY OF H. H. OSOUL of fire within a womans clay!Lifting with slender hands a races wrong,Whose mute appeal hushed all thine early song,And taught thy passionate heart the loftier way; What shall thy place be, in the realms of day ? What disembodied world can hold thee long,Binding that turbulent pulse with spell more strong?Dwellst thou, with wit and jest, where poets may? Or with ethereal women (born of air And poets dreams) dost live in ecstasy, Teach new love-thoughts to Shaksperes Juliet fair, New moods to Cleopatra ? Then, may be, The woes of Shelleys Helen thou dost share,Or weep with poor Rossettis Rose Mary. TJwmas Wentworth Hi^nnson £cV Hfe HI iBI i. --= .-,.„. • r*. -- - jpj , >*q*$i4 m | •-> v. ISPS! * IslSL 1111111 DRAWN BY MARY HALLUCK FOOTE. :CoL^Sc- : ENGRAVED BY T. COLE. IDUNA. IDUNA. I HAD just passed through that first reallypassionate part of a mans life which gen-erally comes somewhere in his third decade,and had entered upon the brief period whichinvariably follows, when, in our comparativeinexperience, we think that we have so feltall that the world gives of enjoyment orsorrow, that, if not incapable of new orstrong emotion, we are at least quite beyondthe possibility of surprise. I was more thanstartled, however, when, in the first compla-cency of this latter time, I received a requestwhich I could not, and which indeed I hadno desire to disregard. In his will my fatherhad enjoined upon me that whenever andwhithersoever a lifelong friend should summonme, I should immediately and literally obeythe call. I was then to learn something ofgreat importance to myself. As may well beimagined, I had at on
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