STORIES IN VERSE. BY HENRY ABBEY. The sense of the world is short— To love and be beloved. Emerson. Emerson. NEW YORK: A. D. F. RANDOLPH & CO., PUBLISHERS, Cor. Broadway and Ninth Street. 1869. Cor. Broadway and Ninth Street. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by Henry L. Abbey, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York. Henry L. Abbey RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE: PRINTED BY H. O. HOUGHTON AND COMPANY. TO RICHARD GRANT WHITE, WITH GRATITUDE FOR HIS FRIENDSHIP, AND WITH ADMIRATION FOR HIS ELEGANT SCHOLARSHIP. CONTENTS. Blanche Karagwe, an African Demetrius The Strong Spider Grace Bernard Veera BLANCHE: AN EXHALATION FROM WITHERED VIOLETS.