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| "LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM," IN PHOENIX PARK. -In looking at the foregoing sketch, one might easily imagine himself in one of the pleasure grounds of the beautiful City of Mexico. Here we have rocks and tropical vegetation in abundance. The Yucca-a plant common in Aztec land-seems to grow generously in the genial shade of the Irish forest trees. The young man seated on the picturesque pile of rocks in the middle foreground, seems to be of poetical temperanment, and sits in an attitude suggestive of the composition of "a ballad made to his mistress' eyebrow." It is evidently his first passion, and first passions, when their victims are absent from the objects that create them, demand romantic solitude. Where can the lover more naturally indulge this harmless propensity than in exquisite Phoenix Park, which might well be dedicated to Cupid himself? New hope may bloom, and days may come As love's young dream! Of milder, calmer beam- Oh, there's nothing half so sweet in life But there's nothing half so sweet in life As love's young dream! |
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