"Your truly affectionate,
"L. E. (Landon*) Maclean.
"I shall not forget the shells."
[The name had been written "L. E. Landon;" but the word ‘Landon' was erased, and that of ‘Maclean' substituted.]
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* "You see how diſficult it is to leave off an old custom."
☞ The following are the last published pieces from the pen of the lamented Mrs. Maclean:
The Poetry of Schloss's English Bijou Almamac
for 1839.—BY L. E. L.
THE DUCHESS OF KENT.
A widow with an only child,
The mother of our queen;
A stranger in a foreign land,
Thy lot has various been.
How many claims attend with thee
Upon a nations sympathy!
How many anxious watching hours
Thy Mother's heart has known,
Before the blossom was a flower—
The orphan on a throne!
Ah! may a glorious future wait
On thee—thy child—and England's fate!
LADY BLESSINGTON.
Yet on the haunted canvass dwells
The beauty of that face,
Which art's departed master held
His sweetest task to trace;
None see it but are prisoners held
In its strong toil of grace.
