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MARRIAGE BELOW ZERO

A Novel.

by

ALAN DALE.

"I seek no sympathies, nor need;
The thorns which I have reaped are of the tree
I planted,—they have torn me.—and I bleed:

I should have known what fruit would spring from each a seed."

Byron.

"Soft love, spontaneous tree, its parted root
Must from two hearts with equal vigour shoot;
Whilst each delighted and delighting gives
The pleasing ecstacy which each receives:
Cherish'd with hope, and fed with joy it grows;
Its cheerful buds their opening bloom disclose,
And round the happy soul diffusive odour flows.
If angry fate that mutual care denies,
The fading plant bewails its due supplies;

Wild with despair, or sick with grief, it dies."

Prior.

Logotype of G. W. Dillignham.