Think not the heart barren, because no reflection

Is flashed from the depths of its secret embrace;

External appearance may baffle detection,

And yet the heart beat with an ethical grace:

The breast may be charged with the truest affection

And never betray it by action or face.

"Where nature's chemistry distills, The fountain and the laughing rills." SCENE NEAR TELLURIDE, SAN MIGUEL COUNTY, COLORADO.

 

 Humanity's Stream.

I stood upon a crowded thoroughfare,

Within a city's confines, where were met

All classes and conditions, and surveyed,

From a secluded niche or aperture,

The various, ever-changing multitude

Which passed along in restless turbulence,

And, as a human river, ebbed and flowed

Within its banks of brick and masonry.

Within this vast and heterogeneous throng,

One might discern all stages and degrees,

From wealth and power to helpless indigence;

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