turn to

But since, alas! frail beauty must decay,

Curl'd or uncurl'd, since locks will turn to gray;

Since painted, or not painted, all shall fade,

Ye were all so fair that are broken; and one more fair than ye all.

But I turn to her still, having seen she shall surely abide in the

end;

Ye were all so fair that are broken; and one more fair than ye all.

But I turn to her still, having seen she shall surely abide in the end;

Goddess and maiden and queen, be near me now and befriend.

Kissed upon either cheek and either eye,

I turn to thee as some green afternoon

Turns toward sunset, and is loth to die;

beth. — Reflecting and enquiring readers will, we are persuaded,

eagerly turn to the pages of Mr. Nicolas ; and they will join with us

in tendering thanks to the Author, as well for the moral tendency, as

Those conceits however, when used by Marvell,

always add a graceful turn to the verse, and

below the surface there is a deeper meaning.

Under Vesevus's hill,--are we receding to thee?--

Sicily, Greece, will invite, and the Orient;--or are we turn to

England, which may after all be for its children the best?

Or that ’t has come, and been, and passed away:

Yet turn to other none,—

Turn not, oh, turn not thou!