For the unscented fictions of the loom; Who, satisfied with only pencilled scenes, Prefer to the performance of a God, Th' inferior wonders of an artist's hand!

It is a chilling thing to feel one's budding confidence in a new acquaintance nipped by such frosty suspicions; yetHeaven forgive me!the bare idea has, before now, caused me to drop, unscented, the pinch of carote which has been courteously tendered by some coffee-house companion.

I am stooping to pick a little posy of violets as these languid thoughts dawdle through my mindblue mysteries of sweetness and color, born of the unscented, dull earth.