DEDICATED

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MATILDAM. 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.

May, 1858.

A. A. P.