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Yon grove, whose chair so sweetly cheers
Us now, shall sound oq other cars ;
The joyous lambs, as now. .shall play,
Rut other eyes their sports survey ;
The stream we loved shrill roll as fair.
The flowery sweets, the trim parterre.
Shall scent, as now, the ambient air;
The tree whose bending branches bear
The one loved name— shall yet be there—
But where the hand that carved it ? Where?

These were hinted to me as the very ideas
Which passed through the mind of the fair Lady Jane,
As she walked on the esplanade to and again,
With Captain Mar.:Bride,
Of course at her side,
Who could not look quite so forlorn— though he tried.
An idea," in fact, had got into his head,
That if ‘-poor dear Sir Thom as” should really be dead,
It might be no bad “ spec” to be there in his stead,
And by simply contriving, in due time, to wed
A lady who was young and fair,
A lady slim and tall,
To set himself down in comfort there,
The lord of Tap ton Hall.

Thinks he. 11 We have sent
Half over Kent,
And nobody knows how much money’s been spent,
Yet 110 one’s been found to say which way he went 1
Hero’s a fortnight and more has gone by, and we've tried
Every plan we could hit on—and had him well cried,
’ Missing ! \ Stolen or Strayed,
Lost or Mislaid,