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OMMEXC1NG Auousta.Ga., July 12, 1SH0.
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M«V2.1870.
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Ar Fort Royal 0.05 am,Ar Augusta 7.17 am
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1,000 MILE TICKETS.
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Office Gener al Passenger A gent. S >
COMMENCING Augusta, April 5th, ls7!».
MONDAY, 7th inst.,
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AND MILE TICKETS, good oxer main
line and branches, at TWENTY-FIVE
DOLLARS each. These tickets will be
issued to individuals, firms or families, but
not to firms and families combined.
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May!),1879. General Passenger Agent.
500 MILE TICKETS.
GEORGIA RAILROAD COMPANY 1
Office Gexer l Passenger Act 1 , >
commencing'' tW^daU’thteCom
V panv will -sell FIVE HUNDRED
MILE TICKETS, good over main line
and branches, at THIRTEEN 7.-100
DOLLARS each. These tickets will be
issued to individuals, firms, or families,
but not to firms and families combined,
E. R. DORSEY,
General Passenger Agent.
Marchl0,1880. t-o-o
H IRES IrQ ct P ro 'od Ma Root H:’ five Beer gallons Package, of
a delicious j i• and i' sparkling beverage,—
wholesome and temperate. Sold by drug
gists, or sent by mail on receipt of' 25 cts.
Address, Market CHAS. E. HIRES, Manufacturer,
215 Street, Philadelphia. Pa
Feb. 11,1880. b-m
Vol. 4.
TO MY FATHER.
_
LTlie following beautiful lines were writ
ten many years ago by Henry R. Jackson,
Esq., now a resident of Savannah. During
the war they were republished In the North
and erroneously attributed to General
man ','^,7’, > of o'!" ol,r ” ’ Vm,h ’ ,a ‘ ; ' ks ’’ni ' J k> contemporaries an <' rror mb’ which seem
to have fallen, and in order to rectify this
mistake we publish the poem in full tt
Bother with the name of the author.-En.
Democrat.] .
As die the embers on the hearth
And o’er the floor the sliadowsfall,
1 ’’SlCTXIKlPKR'aaSV see a form in yonder chair,
The pallid brow, anil locks of white.
,, My , father! , when , they laid thee down,
And neaped (he clay wpon thy breast,
Amt left thee sleeping all alone,
I pon thy narrow cotu-luof rest ;
1 know not why 1 could not weep,
Tlie soothing drops refused to roll,
And oh ! that grief is wild and deep,
Which settles tearless on the soul.
But when I saw thy vacant chair,
Thine idle hat upon the wall,
The book—tho poncil'd passage—there
Thine eye had rested fast of all :
The tree beneath whose friendly shade
Tlie Thy trembling prints feet had wandered forth,
very those feet had made
When last they feebly trod the earth ;
I thought while countless ages fled
Thyrtti nt ch lir would vacant stand
Unworn tbs oat, thy book unread,
Effaced thy footsteps from the saml •
Ami widowed in this cheerless world '
The heart that gave its love to thee ;
Torn like the vine whose tendrils curled
More closely round tlie falling tree
Ob, father ! then for her and thee,
•Gush'd madly forth the scalding tear
And oft, and long, and bitterly,
Those tears have gushed in later years;
For as the world grows cold around,
And tilings assume their own real line,
*T is sad to find that love is found
Alone above the stars with you.
An Ancient Manuscript.
The general feeling < f scholars, says
the .Scotsman in regard to manuscripts
of ancient writers is that almost all have
been discovered that there is any hope
of discovering. TfiV feeling, however,
has been happily disappointed in sever¬
al cases. The recent finding of a manu
script of Clement, ItomahMs and other
early ecclesiastical writers ill Constanti¬
nople gave an agreeable surprise, to stu¬
dents of church history. In no depart¬
ment have such discoveries been more
surprising and more valuable than those
in connection w.th the New Testament.
Tischendorf in his wanderings among
libraries in all parts of tlie world came
upon many leaves of old New Testament
manuscripts, and crowned his investiga¬
tions by unearthing in Dio .Sinaitic
monastery tho most complete manu¬
script of the New Testament in exist¬
ence belonging loan early date. The
issuing of a trustworthy edition of the
“ Codex Vaticanus ” iti our ago may al¬
so be deemed a real discovery. In this
way tlie two manuscripts which will he
hold in future as most valuable in determ¬
ining the text of the New Testament
iiave become kpown to scholars only
within tlie hist twenty years. We have
now to record tlie discovery of another
manuscll P t of a Portion of tlie New Tes
tament, written at a very early period.
The merit of the discovery is due to two
German scholars scholars, Oscar Oscai V V. Cel.har.lt Gel.li.lrdt
and Adolf Hornach, whose edition of
the “ Apostolic Fathers ” has deserved
ly received the warmest commendation.
These scholars were enabled through tlie
munificence of the German government
and tlie endowment attached to Leipzig
university, to make a journey in March
of this year to .Southern Italy and Sicily,
in which they resolved to search for
manuscripts. Their attention was so¬
cially directed to notice of a monastery at
Itossano, near the gulf of Tarentum, in
j which important manuscripts were said
1 r* “ *»» «"«~
traces of the monastery, but they heard
that there was a very old book preserved
ln tlie P alaco of the archbishop of Uossa
no. Accordingly they asked permission
: to see it, and to their great joy found
that it was a very valuable manuscript
of tlie Gospels of St. Matthew and
St. Mark. They now issue an account
of it in a volume just publis ed, “ Evan
getiorum Codex Graecus Purpureus llos
sanensis (E) Littens Argenteis sexto ut
Videtur stuculo scriptus picturesque
ornatus, scene Entdeckung sein wissen
scaftlicher und Kunstlerischer Werth
dargestelit von Oscar V. Gebhardt und
Adolf Harnach, (Leipzig : Giesche &
Devrient.)”
description or tiie manuscript.
The leaves of this manuscript are
i ma materlal f e ,°, £ used throughout par ‘' hment in ’ writing and the is
silver, except in the first three lines of
each gospel, where the letters are gold
en. There is oaly one other manuscript
of . thls klnd existence . . containing . . .
i ,n any
portion of the New Testament, and it is
in a mutilated condition, four of its
leaves being in London, six in Rome,
tw0 Vienna, and tlnrty-three have
been more recently discovered in the isl
an j ot , latinos. .. , The present volume,
“
on the other hand, consistsof 188 leaves,
aud contains the whole of the gospel of
St. Matthew and the gospel of St. Mark
The Democrat
CRAWFORDVILLE, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1880.
down to the middle of the fourteentii
verse the sixteenth chapter. All the
criteria used in judging of manuscript
indicate the end of the fifth or beginning
of the sixth century as the date of this,
The manuscript is written in uncial
characters, with two columus in eacli
page. There is no separation of words.
. breathing, ... accent, and only the
no
s!i K hUst attempt at punctuation. There
are ca[i als double the size of the
uncials, the Ammonia sections are in
dicated and the Eusebian canons must
*»™ «i*», forilcnuun, a por
tion of the letter of Eusebius to Car
? ianU8 ’ and there is S'** 1 r “ con
lecturing that this was followed by a ta¬
ble of the Eusebian canons. The '-Iters
bear the closest resemblance to e oc
curring in :
manuscript of the fifth and
sixth centuries. The editors reserve
their remarks on the nature of the text
until they publish it in full. Ail that
they state now is, that it bears a strik¬
ing resemblance to that found in the
other manuscript of purple parchment,
that it contains some unique readings,
and that it rather goes with the latter
manuscripts where the Sinaitisaud Vat¬
ican differ from them. Considerable in¬
terest attaches to this manuscript from
the circumstances that it contains a
number of painted miniatures illustra¬
ting the life of Christ. These are among
the earliest works of this kind that are
extant. The editors have prepared out¬
lines of them and discuss their merits.
Tlie subjects are the “ Itesuirectiou of
Lazarus, ’ the “ Entrance into Jerusa¬
lem,” the “ Purification of the Temple,”
the “Wise and Foolish Virgins,” the
“ Last Supper and Washing the Feet,”
the t t Distribution of Bread and Wine,”
“ Christ in Gethsemane,” the “Healing
of the Blind,” the “Kind .Samaritan,”
“Christ Before Pilate,” “The Uepen
tance and Death of Judas,” “ The Jews
Before Pilate” and “Christ and Burab
lws.” In all of them the grouping is
done very artistically, and on the whole
the figures arc well drawn, with much
animation and expression. Some of them
are interesting from a historical [mint
of view, as that which portrays the dis¬
tribution of bread and wine at the
Eucharist. AH of them throw light on
early Christian art, and Ilarnach thinks
that he sees a' closer connection between
these works and Giotto than between
later miniatures and that artist. Be¬
sides the New Testament scenes there
are forty heads of prophets and ono or
two other subjects.
The Famino in Kansas.
Yesterday afternoon's relief meeting
at the Hoard of Trade was called to or¬
der at 5 o’clock by the President of the
Board, Samuel I Smith In a few words
Mr. Smith stated that the object of the
meeting was doubtless known to those
present, and that as the Rev. Mr Weller,
of Kansas, the accredited agent of the
State Aid Society, was present, he would
call upon him for a narration of the
condition of the section from which he
had come, and a statement of exactly
what he designed to ask of St. Joseph.
Thus called upoh Mr. Weller rose and
proceeded to plainly lay the matter tie
fore his auditors. Using nothing what¬
ever of tho adventitious aids affected l.y
the orator, seeking in no way, apparent
ly, to rouse the sympathies of his liear
ers by his manner, the story told by Mr.
Weller was yet so unexpected, so com
passion exciting, and so almost improba¬
ble, as existing in the United States,
that tho feelings of those who listened
were deeply stirred.
“ It is painful to mo,” said Mr. Wel¬
ler, “ to come before you in the capacity
of one asking alms. If we did not firmly
believe that our own State was unable
to alleviate the great amount of suffer¬
ing which now exists, and tlie greater
amount which will presently exist in the
counties forming our western tiers, I
would not have come here at all.” Mr.
Weller then went on to say that but
though tlie liberality of one roan (Jay
Gould), who had given a noble contri¬
bution to relieve tlie destitution of the
unfortunate settlers, the suffering would
have been much greater than it was in
many townships. As it was, it was
bad enough. He could not say just to
whose door the fault of this state of
things should be laid. There were
doubtless many misrepresentations made
by interested corporations. Horne of their
announcements were so glowingly word¬
ed that the intending settler was half
led to think the land in reality a Canaan,
and that the sun and stars of heaven were
almost at his service.
The prairie was a stubborn thing.
While it might be fertile, it needed cul¬
tivation ; he who would reap from the
prairie must labor. A principal reason
of the want of any crop this year was
that the settlers of ’79 had come in too
late. The soil bad not received the need¬
ful preparation, and even had there been
rain there would have been a small crop.
He lived at Buffalo station, on the line
of the Kansas Facific Railway. In his
I couDty five thousand new settlers bad
j come from almost every Stale in the
Union, within a year past. Many of
! them were so poor that they could not
pay for the pre-emption of their lands,
When disaster came they had nothing
upon which to live. They had staked
their all upon their latest venture and
its failt^e had left tbem stranded. From
the 11th day of November, 1879, until
the 10th day of May. 1880, not one drop
of rain pad fallen in that whole section,
Wallace. Trego, Gove and other coun¬
ties, in which he lived. Tho ground was
parchoY
On the 19th of May there had been a
very slight rain. On the 21st of May a
shower which had measured a fall of
atbs of au inch had come ; on
of June there had been another
slight ”.iu ; last week there had oeen a
heav/rnin. But this latter one would
suffice nothing. The corn and potatoes
which had been lying in that sun-baked
soil were dead. The vital principle had
been as thoroughly taken from them as
if lying-in a burning kiln.
There was another enemy which had
fallen upon the fields of the unfortunate
settlers. In those sections which bad
been less severely visited, aud where a
modest fiKSp was springing upward to
greet the harvester, there had appeared a
scourge in the shape of a devouring
worm. In three hours its ravages would
completely destroy a field of com and
leave it as hare as if its blades had never
pierced tho soil to meet tho light.
Through au entire belt ot counties
extending from Nebraska to the south¬
ern border there had been uo food of any
consequential amount raised during the
season. .In Wallace and Gove counties
not enough had been produced to feed
ten families.
And these peoplo were forced to re¬
main. ’f heir whole worldly possessions
were centered around the hunger-filled
cabins which they called their own, and
to leave them they could not be per¬
suaded. Where, indeed, should they go
eveu could they get away.
A few'Veeks ago be had rejmrted the
condition of affairs to Governor St.John
The luttey had come to Wallace, made
an justs’ % u, and, returning U> Topeka,
had *«d that 26,000 people were
in iti in'efHa’ e need of assistance.”, the
ret>ort had belli received with something
of a touch of incredulity. Then the
State Aid Society had sent an agent to
investigate. He had made a similar re¬
port, and still unsatisfied, the society
had sent a lady to look over the fit Id.
Her reports had shown a greater degree
of destitution than that of any of her
predecessors. Ho had himself accom¬
panied her upon tho trips of inspection,
ne firmly believed there were 20,000
people in his section who were almost
without necessary food, and who had no
clothing except a few rags, lie had
met one man upon his rounds whose
children were dressed in the flour sacks
which had contained Die flour sent out
by the relief committee last fall. After
visiting tin re and leaving his companion
there a moment, he had taken the fann¬
er aside and asked him what he had
been living upon for the past month.
“Oh, we have had enough,” was tho
evasive reply.
“But what have yeu ?”
“Well, we havo corn meal,” came the
slow answer.
“Have you anything else ?”
“Oh, yes.”
“What else ?” [mrsisted Mr. Weller.
“Well, we have a little salt,” was re¬
luctantly replied, and then the great
tears welled to the strong man’s eyes at
.what seemed to him Die humiliating
confession.
But this case was only ono of hun¬
dreds.
In one case they had found a woman
making biscuit from the last measure of
flour there was in Die house, and there
was nothing else.
“We haven’t seen a dollar in six
months,” said one woman to him.
While lie believed there had yet been
no case of actual starvation, ho was
sure deaths had occurred with the pri¬
vations which the people had undergone
as a primary cause. There was much
sickness, want was everywhere and
death must follow faster.
He had lieen selected by all the coun¬
ties of his section to go to Topeka and
ask aid from the State authorities.—
Further than that lie had not desired to
go. He had even toid his wife he would
lie back within three days. But in To¬
peka the Aid Society had asked him to
come here and to Atchison to ask fur¬
ther aid.
They believed that the State of Kan¬
sas would be unable of herself to furnish
all the necessary relief. Five hundred
thousand dollars was needed to buy food
supplies, and a portion of this must be
asked from other States. In January
the Legislature would meet and pass
Such measures as should be necessary.—
St. Joe Gazette, July 17.
Senator Voortiees predicts the Demo
crats will carry Indiana.
No. 32.
England's Rulers.
The following old rhyme contains the
names of all the English sovereigns,
since the conquest, is chronological or¬
der :
First WHUam theNorman, then William,his
son,
Henry, and Stenben John; and Henry, then Richard
Then Henry, the third, Edwards one, two
and three,
And again, after Richard, three Ilcnns wc
Two Edwards, third Richard—if rightly I
guess—
Two llenrys, sixth Edward, Queen Mary,
Then Queen Russ,
Jamie, the Scotsman, sow* Charles,
whom they slew.
Yet received, after Cromwell, another
Then Charles, James, too;
the second, ascended the
throne,
Ahd good William and Mary together eame
Till on,
Anne,G eorges four and fourth Witiiam
all pas \W
God sent us V ria ; may she long be the
last.
— •
Mysterious Disappearance.
The last week in May, Dorsey Reid,
a young man about nineteeu years old,
ami nephew of Mr. L. C, Coleman, of
Lincoln county, very mysteriously disap¬
peared, and has not since bean heard
from. He was living with Mr. Coleman,
and came to tlie house about the middle
of the aftemoou one day to get some
seed corn for the negroes to finish plant¬
ing, and after getting tlie corn started
hack totlie field, and, as we learn, luw
never been seen or heard of since. Dor¬
sey was an orphan and very small far
his age, and for some weeks after his
suddes disapiiearance the prevailing
impression was that he had only ran off,
but inquiries have been made In
every section of the county, and even
pi adjoining counties, and no one has
seen him or is able to reveal anything aa
to hu whereabouts. It has been said
(whether truthfully or not we do not
know) that he and the negroes on Mr.
Coleman's place did not get along very
well together, and some are of the opin¬
ion that there was foul play in his sud¬
den disappearance. We think the mat¬
ter should be investigated, and his where¬
about ascertained if possible.— McDuf¬
fie Journal.
The Suu Cholera Medicine.
Mora time (weqtjr years ago, when it w«*
found that prevention of cboler.,
icr than cure, a prescription drawn up Uy
eminent doctors was published In the New
Fork Sun, and it took the name of the Sun
cholera medicine.
Our contemporary never lent its name to
a better article. Wo have seen it in con¬
stant use for near two years, and found it
to be the best remedy for looseness of tlie
bowels ever yet devised.
No one who has this by him and takes it
in time will ever have tho cholera.
Wc commend it to all our friend*. Even
when no cholera is anticipated, It Is an ex¬
cellent remedy for ordinary summer com¬
plaints, colic, diarrhoea, dysentery, etc.
Take equal parts of tincture of Cayenne
pepper, tincture of opium, tineture of rhu¬
barb, essence of peppermint ami spirits of
camphor, mix well. Dose—15 to ,10 drops
in a little cold water, according to age,and
violence of symptoms, repented every ir> or
20 minutes, until relief Is obtained.—Jour.
of Com.
Greenesiioro Herald: “It is thought
that the meteorite, which passed over
Central Georgia about ono month ago,
exploded in tills vicinity, and that tho
fragments may bo found somewhere in
our county.”
Three negroes havo died in Athens
from eating watermelons with strych¬
nine in them, ft appears that they had
been stolen by negroes and sold to deal¬
ers, and so the unfortunate victims came
by them honestly.
Mr. J. A. Crawford, who lives some
three miles east of Lowudcsvillc, reports
the farms in his neighborhood as being
dry, though the pros[iects of a fair crop
are good. The oat and wiieat crops in
tiiis ueighljorhood were poor indeed.
Wednesday morning, curious to say, a
small spring suddenly bubbled up from
near the curbstouo in front of Dr. K. V.
Mitchell’s drug store, in Rome, and the
water flowed cool and c.car for an hour or
so, and then as suddenly ceased.
A rascally darky near Savannah, be¬
coming incensed with his old mother
because his coffee was muddy, seized a
large knife and almost severed a slice
from tlie old darne’s ear. Site went to
town, had the wound dressed, and went
away exclaiming : “ Dat boy will be de
def ot ine yet.”
Mr. George R. McKee, who has an
extensive farm near Valdosta, Ga., last
week shipped a large quantity of fresh
iigs to New York. They were shipped
over the Florida Dispatch Line in one
of their refrigerators. Information lias
been received that they arrived .in good
condition and were sold at thirty cents
per quart.
The Vatican has determined to aug¬
ment and Romanize the colleges of Die
propaganda for Asia and Africa with a
view of developing the Catholic Church
ih those parts. A new Vicar Apostolic
will be created in Morocco, and another
further in the interior of Africa.
The Democrat.
AlIVKHTMlm KATES:
On.- .•■qiinrc, first insertion $ M
One Square, . .
each subsequent insertion. 2*
One Square, three months 4 00
One Square, .
twelve mouths , . « 04
Quarter Column, twelve month* . 23 M
Halt Column .
One Column twelvemonths . . «o wo
twelve months .
W' One I nek or Lea* con.hl.red as a
•quaie. We have no fractions of a square,
all fractions of squares will be counted ae
squares, liberal deductions made on Ci
tract Advertising.
Gossip for tbs Ladies.
Into tire tunnel whizzed tho train,
Two minutes dark then light again—
And the young couple looked to rue
As innocent aa they could be.
Over their books they seemed to pore
As earnest as they were before,
Sober, and diligent, and sad,
As if 'twas all they thought they had.
But she—was pinker than a rose;
And lie—spite of his solemn pose—
Had some court-plaster on his nose.
A preacher in Chicago advocate* the
introduction of lady ushers in church,
to make the young men attend.
Wisconsin women are sharp. When
they give their children matches to play
with and go off on a visit they carry th«
insurance policies with them.
At nbull—Match-making mamma to
her marriageable daughter: ‘-Virginia,
dear, don’t lose sight of that gentleman
in mounting, lie may be a widower.”
“Isn’t your husband a little bald ?”
asked one lady of another, in a store re*
oently. “There isn’t a bald hair In bia
head,’’ was the hasty reply of the wife,
A pretty answer was given by a little
Scotch girl. When her class was exam*
ined, she replied to the question, “What
is patience V” “Wait a wes, and dinna
weary.”
A Boston mother makes her daughter
walk the room half an hour daily, carry¬
ing ajar of water on her head, so a* to
give her ns erect and graceful a carriage
as eastern women have.
A Va.“sar College girl read a paper to
prove that i*htliolognyrrh Killed Tur¬
ney Her argument was that phth, aa
in phthisis, is T; olo, a* in colonel, i* ur;
gn, as in gnat, is n; yrrh, as in myrrh, la
er.
Mary Beane deemed herself neglected
by her lover at Denver, and ehot the
man with whom she found him piayitg
cards when ha ought to Imre been visit*
ing her. This shows the wickedness of
■playing cards.
Since the introduction of female pool*
masters, a girl goes up to the window
and says: “Is there a letter for Him
Margaret Robinson f" “V..," lays tho
female postmaster, “here is oi«
John M. Jones.”
’Here is the way a Vallejo girl puts bet
hick hair : “lti turn de iddle, do Iddle da
layf Wiieiv. ;• n >.»i» ninny de 1 Iddle da
lay; oh, ain’t 1 killing rum tlddy de ltd*
die de lay; and I’m going to the pick*
nicty er rickety de lickety do lay.”
A ch.-trinlng young girl In fhdlsiro.
Was in trouble about her front hair ;
If arranged in a bung,
It never would hang
At all straight, hut waved wild in the air.
.So slut hunted an iron rod hot.
And went in lor a frizz on tho spot
She will never look cute,
Is Hu likely by purchasing fool folks Jute
as to as not.
There is fashion in ages in all things
else. According to Mr. Labour,here in
the London Truth , it is not “modioli”
to he too young. Tim fashionable age
just now is from 21 to .‘<0. Sweet sixteen
is, for the present, out of the running.
A Bostonian who was nominated for
a political oflico went to his wife and said
that before lie accepted lie wanted to
know whether any member of her fami¬
ly Bad been engaged in any disreputable
transactions. She said, “Better de¬
cline.”
A Cleveland lady recently lay in a
trance for a whole day, and every one
thought that siie was dead. The next
morning she revived and saw her hus¬
band writing at a table. He kissed her
and said, “How lucky. 1 was just wri¬
ting a proposal of marriage.”
.Somebody who lias evidently been
having a nightmare of a woman in a
brown linen dress, with a Japanese para¬
sol, idaek lace mite and rublier bracelet*,
says “there never was atiino when wo¬
men can make more indecent frights of
themselves without Ixriiig taken to the
police station.”
The members of a young ladies’ deba¬
ting society in Troy have decided in fa¬
vor of long courtships. Level-headed
girls. Observation lias taught tbem
that there is a wonderful falling off of
confections, bails, carriage rides and op¬
era when courtship ends and the stern
realities of married life begin.
Young men should never lose presence
of mind in a trying situation. When
you take the ghl you love to a picnic,
and yon wander away together to com¬
mune with nature, and she suddenly ex¬
claims, “Ob, George, there’s an ant
down my back !” don’t stand still witb
your mouth open; don’t faint; don’t go
for the girl's mother; go lor the ant.
KISS ME!
Kiss me quick, kiss ine nice,
Kiss roe once, kiss me twice ;
Kiss me often, kiss me long,
Kiss Hold me boldly, tight in is fond “ Birdie’s”song, embrace,
me
Mouth to mouth, face to face :
•Sparkling eyes, bine as skies,
Sparkling love that never dies,
Glued Ruby lips together in passion with meet,
Scented of lilies’ nectar sweet;
breath dower.
Intoxicates with Cupid’s power.
Htiguish dimples on hide rosy cheek,
blushes, playing aud seek ;
Honey kisses, often given.
Love tokens if sweetly riven.
