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THE BRITISH MINSTREL; AND
my funeral hymn. ' A woman,' says iny Italian
countryman, the Venetian Casanova,' is only as she
appears in the eyes of her lover.' Had the world,
which one day gave me all her laurels, and much
more praise than I was entitled to receive, reserved
for me some esteem and interest, they would not
to-day have thought me so shockingly old, or allowed
me to have been so regardlessly killed.
' This is the sorrowful treatment I experience.
Commuuicate the contents of this letter in your
journal ; most likely you are now better initiated
in the Italian language than you were in 1839, when
you came to see me at the Lake of Como, and
brought me greetings from friends in Germany; and
allow me, for the present, to subscribe myseli' really
and truly, Sir, your obedient servant,
Angelica Catalani.
Florence, Jan. 6, 1844.'
A SONNET.
By Miss Mitford.
I could have lengthen'd out one fleeting hour
Into an age — sitting at set of sun
Under the long, low, open shed, where won
The mellow evening light through leaf and flower;
Playing the hostess in that summer bower
To such dear guests, while rose tlie antique song,
By those young sister voices pour'd along,
So wild, so pure, so clear, so full of power.
Ringing and vibrating. It was a lay
That sent a smile into the very heart ;
As when the early lark shoots up in May,
With his blithe matins, rarer than all art
Save this. O happiest and most fleeting day,
Why art thou gone so soon ? — Why must we part.
FOR UNTO US A CHILD IS BORN.
SACRED CHORUS, FROM THE "MESSIAH."
Andante Allegro,
Sym,
Handel.
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TENOR.
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