Viewing page 24 of 125

This transcription has been completed. Contact us with corrections.

read them all, as you sit before your picture-And, in them you will find, I hope, deeply conveyed my warm feeling of affectionate appreciation for the friendship that has shown itself to me, in my forlorn destruction-as it had done before, in our happiness to both of us- And in the work, perhaps with you, of your refined sympathy and perception, recover the pleasure and interest taken in the perfecting of it, by the other one who, with me, liked you, and delighted in the kind and courteous attention paid, on your travels to her pretty fancy and expressed wish- 

She loved the wonderful bird you sent with such happy care from the distant land! And when she went- alone because I was unfit to go too- The strange wild dainty creature stood uplifted on the topmost panel and sand and sang as it had never sung before! A song of the Sun. and of joy. and of my despair! Loud and ringing clear from the skies! - and louder! Peal upon peal-until it became a marvel the tiny beast, torn by such glorious voice, should him! 

And suddenly it was made known to me that in this mysterious magpie waif from beyond the temples of India, the spirit of my beautiful Lady had lingered on it's way. and the song was her song of love, and courage, and command that

Transcription Notes:
---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-04-20 16:47:14 ---------- Reopened for Editing 2023-04-20 17:59:32