"
And in another poem, full of expressions that show how very devoted
was his affection for her, he says:
"Above her lieth spread a tomb
Of gold and sapphires blue,
The gold doth show her blessedness,
The sapphires mark her true.
"And round about, in quaintest guise,
Was carved--'Within this tomb there lies
The fairest thing to mortal eyes.'"
Farewell, sweet Isabella!--a wife at eight, a widow at twelve, and
dead at twenty-two,--your life was indeed short, and, though not
without happy days, sorrow blended largely with its joy!
CHASED BY WOLVES
BY GEORGE DUDLEY LAWSON.
Some forty years ago the northern part of the State of New York was
very sparsely settled. In one of the remote counties, which for a
name's sake we will call Macy County, a stout-hearted settler, named
Devins, posted himself beyond the borders of civilization, and hewed
for his little family a home in the heart of a forest that extended
all the way from Lake Champlain to Lake Ontario.
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