For the WilIningtonian.
THE FALSE LOVER.
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Fair Mary was parents joy,
(, Unhurt by cares that peace annoy,


Until the spoiler came;
Then in that dark and luckless hour,
sxhe night-dew nipt the tender flower,
o And blasted her fair fame.
ralse,promses and oaths, had won
The lovely maid to be undone
.. By Fortunes glittering child;
BY him who sought the flow'ry shade,
F, TO bind in slken chains the maid,


And at her ruin smil'd.
sAh! wretched girl, in tears she cry'd,
All! wrctched girl, the hills replied,


What now can hide my shamei
Hye planted ina fathers heart,
For all his love, poison'd dar',


And lost daughters name.
sYe billowyj waves, that loudly roar,
Tell not the tale, when from yon shore


Iplunge into the wave;
o God! hear thou, my ardent pray'rs,
Save thou fathers hoary hairs


In sorrow, from the grave.
She said,--and rushing up the steep,
That overhung the dashing deep,


Stood fx'd in wild despair;
The pale moon gleam'd upon the wave,
The breeze, in silence, kiss'd her grave.


And fann'd her flowing hair.
The raven scream'd on tow'ring tree,
The woodlands sighed most mourntul'y.


Her blood was child with feari
sMy God!' she cried, Il cannot live,
But my false lover, o forgiven


And drop'd aheav'n-born tear.
Distraction seiz'd her inmost soul,
And wild did her bright eycballs roll
e Some sleeper rock to find;
Then musing melancholy came,
And breath'd her lovers dulcet name.
= Then frenzy of the mind.
Slow up the rocky pathway, round,
The tell-tale echo breath'd asound,
i The signal OF alarm;
Her anguishd glance, the footstep drew,
And suddenly appear'd to view


Her lovers smiling form.
: A shrll shrek pierc'd the ambient air.
And craz'd she tore her hanging hair,


Then made an awful leap;
Fardown the rock he saw her go,
Hurl'd headlong to tn abyss below,


Amid the dashing deep.
The parting pillows swept the shore,
Her dying shrek the rocks did roar,


Far down the sounding main;
Thc parted billows calmly clos'd,
Poor Mary's form in death reposd


And meier was seen again.


MILFORD BARI