JESSIE THE FLOWER or pumsrAxr.
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The fair object of this song was bonnie lassie in Dunblane. Her family was of poor extraction. and Jessie herself was contented with a peasants lot. When Tannahill be- came acquainted with her, she was in her ieens,' slight dimple. happy las. sic, her hair yeliow-colored and luxuriant {; her eyes large and full everfowing with the voIup,uous languor which is so becoming in young blue eyes with golden Iashcs. Tan. nahill was struck with her beauty; md. as in all things was enthusiastical, became forth with her ardent worshipper. But her heart was not won. Young, thoughtless, and pan. ting to know and see the world, she left her poor amourante to con songs 10 his mistress eyebrows while she recklessly rambled among the fowery nleads of Dumbland. or of an evening sang his inspired verses 10 him with the most mOrtjfying nnnchalGnce This was n two-fold misery to the sensitive poet. A creature NO sweetly elegant, so dear 10 him, SO very lovely, so innocent, and yet withal. so encased in insensibiliiy, as apparently neither to he conscious of the beauty of the verses trembling on her dulcet tongue, nor caring for the carresses of her lover. Twas too much: to mark all this, and feel it with the feeling of a poet. was the acme of misery. But the Flower of Dumblane,' was not that unfeeIing, unimaginatve being which Tan. nahill pictured her. She was a creature all feeling, all imagination, although tho bard had not that in his person or manlers to en- gage her attention. Or to arrest her fancy The young affections are not to he control led. Love almighty love e-must bc free else it ceases 10 be love.

 Tannahill was plain in his person ma un- couth in his manners, and felt and expressed disconteni at the cruel disappointment which ii had been his unhappy fate al,nosi invari- ably 10 encounter. Jessie. on the contrary, looked upon the world as a brilliant specia- cie yet 10 be scen and enjoyed-as vast paradise fuIl Of the beauty of heaven and of earth. where men walked forth in the i'm. age of thar Creator, invested with his attrib. utes. and woman trode proudly amidst the lovr. creation aH angel venerated and ado red.

 To express dissatisfaction under all these circumstances. was to her mind. the extravi. gance of misanthrope. the mndness of real love of misery, and sutficiept cause for her moi to respect him. Both viewed the world through n false medium, and their de- ductions. though at variance, gave color to their minds, and accelerated their fate. Jes- sic could not comprehend what appeared to her the folly of her suitor. She relished not hiS sickly sentiment, and, as all womankind