"My early playmate! oft I humm'd           

             The lays she lisping sung!           

             And sigh'd when looking on the arm,           

             Where she at parting hung.           

                        

             "Then, joy! within my native vale           

             To find my Ellen free!           

             To fancy others pleas'd her not,           

             Because she thought on me!           

                        

             "So closely round a glowing heart           

             Did never flowers entwine!           

             Oh! ne'er was mortal spirit lull'd           

             With visions sweet as mine!"           

            

            

       V.     

       VALENTINE     

 FROM A YOUNG LADY TO HER MOTHER. 

       It is a custom, in some parts of Norfolk and Suffolk, to send little presents with verses on Valentine's Day, to relatives and friends.     

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