The looking-glass for the mind, or, Intellectual mirror : being an elegant collection of the most delightful little stories and interesting tales (1844)
Aveets Arabias gales conveyFrom flowry meads, can with that sigh compare Not dew-drops glittring in the morning ray,Seem near so beanteous as that falling tear. Teach me to soothe the helpless orphans grief; With timely aid the widows woes assuage ;To misrys moving cries to yield relief, And be the… … LOOKING-GLASS. 71 LEONORA AND ADOLPHUS. A YOUNG widow lady, whose name was Lenox,had two children, Leonora and Adolphas, both equal-ly deserving the aifections of a parent, which, how-ever, were unequally shared. Adolphus was thefavourite, which Leonora very early began to dis-cover, and…
Children · Conduct of life · Parent and child · Children and death · Animal welfare · Children's stories, German
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