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And answering to either on occasion,

A female Janus with both pairs of eyes

Bandaged, and bearing keys in either hand,
Rusty and little used those in the right,

The keys of Good; those in the left, smooth worn
With never ceasing use, the keys of Ill.
Walking from CARRARA to PISA, Jan. 30 and 31, 1861.

"Vendere velle rosas inquis; cum sis rosa, quaero
Tene rosasne velis, virgo, an utrumque dare?"

ARIOSTO.

"WHO 'll a blushing red rose buy?"
Rob heard Rose, the flower girl, cry,
Selling flowers as she went by,
And, quick witted, answered: - “I!
But thou 'lt sell cheap

small 's my pelf."

"I'll not take less than thyself."

"Self and all I have, is thine;
With this kiss I make thee mine."

"More I ask not. Take thy kiss

Back again and this and this."

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So the pair the bargain close,

And Rob's got his long loved Rose.

CASA CARTONI AI CAVALLEGGIERI, LEGHORN, Febr. 28, 1861.

EARLY CLOSING.

DON'T talk to me of morals and improvement
And closing for the night at six o'clock,
And the whole livelong summer evening spent
In recreation in the open air,

Or useful books at home, or conversation,
Till the bell rings for supper, prayers and bed,
To rise betimes, and ply again till six

Some pettifogging, half dishonest trade

Pence gathering and with long care making rich.
The daisy far outdoes thee, which observes
No rule of closing but the paling light,

And, under heaven's own free and airy vault,
Spends not the evening only but the day
And livelong night; which has no need of books
Oft dull, or conversation duller still,

Or trade demoralizing, or to leave
Widow and children well provided for
When at the last it yields to stronger Fate
And goes the way both flesh and grass must go.
Most wise young man, and promising as wise,
The "modest, crimson-tipped flower" outdoes thee,
Nor thee alone, but me and all the race.
Walking from PIETRA SANTA to CARRARA, May 24, 1861.

SAXON BARD AND MILESIAN SCHOLIAST.

BARD.

"THIS elegant rose, had I shaken it less,

Might have bloomed with its owner a while, And the tear that is wiped with a little address May be followed, perhaps, by a smile."

SCHOLIAST.

For roses and tears, though not like in themselves,
Agree in one point, we all know:

That roses bloom longer when not shaken hard,
And tears, well dried up, cease to flow;

And sooner or later, the smile 's sure to come
That chequers this valley of woe;

Just as fairer and sweeter and longer lasts still

Of a gingerly pulled rose the blow.

Walking from AGAZZANO (near PIACENZA) to BORGONOVO, May 30, 1861.

HOUSE OF CARDS.

"THE wind has blown down my house of cards,

Alas, and alack-a-day!"

I heard a child once with sobs and tears
To his spectacled grandmother say.

"What matter? what matter?" old grandmother cried, As she laid her green spectacles down,

"Thou hast nothing to do but to build up another; See, there are thy cards every one."

And so says the poet: Thou grown-up child,

When the wind blows thy house of cards down, Thou hast nothing to do but to build up another; See, there are thy cards every one.

For one house of cards is as good as another,
It's the building each up is the fun;

Strive thou as thou wilt to make one last for ever,
Thou canst not, else wert thou undone.

Walking from ALT ST. JOHANN (CANTON ST. GALLEN) to HEMBERG, July 1, 1861.

HOS EGO.

No hand but mine these verses made;
To another's pen the honor 's paid:
So birds their brood for others rear,
So sheep their wool for others bear,
So bees their sweets for others house,
For others so the strong ox ploughs.
Forgive me, Maro, if I'm wrong,
Or ill interpreted thy song.

GOSSAU (CANTON ST. GALLEN), July 2, 1861.

"SPEECH is God's gift to enable Man to hide
His thoughts at pleasure," said wise Talleyrand.
Whence I conclude that either speech was not,
In the opinion of wise Talleyrand,

God's gift to enable man to hide his thoughts,
Or that wise Talleyrand God's gift abused

This once, this only once in all his life.

Walking from WALDENBUCH to ECHTERDINGEN near STUTTGART, July 19, 1861.

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