WOMAN.

Her Endearing Actions.

SHE doeth little kindnesses,

Which most leave undone, or despise ;

For naught that sets one's heart at ease,
And giveth happiness or peace,

Is low-esteemèd in her eyes.

Lowell.

Rainy and rough sets the day,

There's a heart beating for somebody; I must be up and away,—

Somebody's anxious for somebody. Thrice hath she been to the gate,

Thrice hath she listen'd for somebody;

'Midst the night, stormy and late, Somebody's waiting for somebody.

There'll be a comforting fire,

There'll be a welcome for somebody;

One, in her neatest attire,

Will look to the table for somebody.

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Though the stars fled from the west,
There is a star yet for somebody,
Lighting the home he loves best,-
Warming the bosom of somebody.

There'll be a coat o'er the chair,
There will be slippers for somebody;
There'll be a wife's tender care,—

Love's fond embracement for somebody:
There'll be the little one's charms,—
Soon 'twill be waken'd for somebody;
When I have both in my arms,

Oh! but how blest will be somebody!

Swain.

Well thou play'dst the housewife's part,
And all thy threads with magic art

Have wound themselves about this heart,

My Mary.

Cowper.

Actions Graceful.

Neither her outside, form'd so fair, nor aught
So much delights me, as those graceful acts,
Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and actions, mix'd with love

And sweet compliance, which declare unfeign'd
Union of mind, or in us both one soul.

Milton.

Active in her Sympathies.

When the men of Israel bowed in helplessness before Pharaoh, two women spurned his edicts and refused his behests. A father made no effort to save the infant Moses, but a mother's care hid him while concealment was possible, and a sister watched over his preservation when exposed on the river's brink. To woman was intrusted the charge of providing for the perils and the wants of the wilderness; and in the hour of triumph, woman's voice was loudest in the acclaim of joy that ascended to Heaven from an emancipated nation.

Bellew.

Her Affection.

Affections are as thoughts to her,
The measure of her hours;
Her feelings have the fragrancy,
The freshness of young flowers;
And lovely passions, changing oft,
So fill her, she appears

The image of themselves by turns,—
The idol of past years!

Pinckney.

All in All to Her Lover.

Not an angel dwells above

Half so fair as her I love,

Heaven knows how she'll receive me.

If she smiles, I'm blest indeed,

If she frowns, I'm quickly freed :

Heaven knows she ne'er can grieve me.

Phillis, men say that all my vows

Are to thy fortune paid;
Alas! my heart he little knows,

Who thinks my love a trade.

Were I of all these woods the lord,
One berry from thy hand

More real pleasure would afford
Than all my large command.

My humble love has learn'd to live
On what the nicest maid,

Without a conscious blush, may give

Beneath the myrtle shade.

Vanbrugh.

Sir Charles Sedley.

Ambition not desirable in.

When girls are grown up, they begin to be courted and caressed; when they think that the recommending themselves to the affections of the men is the only business they