The Shepherd’s Love. Highland Beauty. Lace Work, with colored Birds. Fashions, three figures, colored. My Bonnie Steed. Harper’s Ferry. Fashions, three figures, colored. The Young Widow. The Crowning of Powhatan. Fashions, four figures, colored. Return from Hawking. The Wife. Lace Pattern, with Embossed View. The Bride. Centre Harbor. Fashions, colored, with a Lace pattern border. The Proffered Kiss. The Wire Suspension Bridge. Fashions, four figures. =MUSIC.= Thy name was once a magic spell, 66 The Dream is past, 122 A lady heard a minstrel sing, 184 There’s no land like Scotland, 246 The Orphan Ballad Singers, 296 * * * * * [Illustration: lace work with colored birds in center] [Illustration: _Painted by Alex^{r}. Johnston. Engraved by J. Sartain._ _The Shepherd’s Love_] * * * * * GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. Vol. XX. PHILADELPHIA: JANUARY, 1842. No. 1. * * * * * THE SHEPHERD’S LOVE. BY J. H. DANA. CHAPTER I. It was a golden morning in early summer, and a thousand birds were warbling on the landscape, while the balmy wind murmured low and musical among the leaves, when a young girl, attired in a rustic dress, might have been seen tripping over the lea. Her golden tresses, as she walked, floated on the wind, and the exercise had called even a richer carnation than usual to her cheek. Her form was one of rare beauty, and her gait was grace itself. As she glided on, more like a sylph than a mortal being, she carolled one of her country’s simple lays; and what with her liquid tones, her sweet countenance, and her bewitching motion, she formed a picture of loveliness such only as a poet could have imagined. At length she approached a ruined wall, half hidden by one or two overshadowing trees. The enclosure partially concealed from view the figure of a young shepherd, who, leaning on his hand, gazed admiringly on her approaching figure. Unconscious, however, of the vicinity of an observer, the maiden tripped on, until she had almost reached the enclosure, when the shepherd’s dog suddenly sprung from his master’s side, and barking violently, would have leaped on the intruder, had not the youth checked him. The maiden started and turned pale; but when she perceived the shepherd her cheeks flushed with crimson, and she stood before the youth in a beautiful embarrassment.