DEDICATED TO MATILDA 'M. HAYS. “ Our tokens of love are for the most part barbarous. Cold and lifeless, because they do not represent our life. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Therefore let the farmer give his corn; the miner a gem; the sailor coral and shells; the painter his picture; and the poet his poem.”_ Emerson's Essays. A. A. P. May, 1858. |