[Illustration: Drawn and Engraved by W. E. Tucker Engraved expressly for Graham’s Magazine] Whilst now with rapture burning, Thy smiles and sighs returning, Say wilt thou love be mine? See—the songsters’ wings are spreading, Each grove and arbour threading, To seek their Valentine. Then while all hearts are striving, And at Love’s Arts conniving, Send offerings to his shrine. May we, our pledge renewing, Our patrons favor wooing, Prove their true Valentine. GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. VOL. XXXIV. FEBRUARY, 1849. No. 2. Table of Contents The Young Lawyer’s First Case The World Christine The Ennuyee The Man in the Moon The Mirror of Life To the Thames, At Norwich, Conn. The Song of the Axe The Wager of Battle Requiem St. Valentine’s Day The Past A Song A Recollection of Mendelssohn Jasper Leech My Bird Has Flown Lessons in German The Phantasmagoria The Beating of the Heart Doctor Sian Seng The Highland Laddie’s Farewell A Twilight Lay The Chamber of Life and Death Earth-Life Eleonore Eboli History of the Costume of Men Wild-Birds of America The Old Year and the New The Lost Notes An Hour Among the Dead Gems From Late Readings Review of New Books Editor’s Table The Bells of Ostend Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook. * * * * * GRAHAM’S MAGAZINE. * * * * * VOL. XXXIV. PHILADELPHIA, FEBRUARY, 1849. No. 2. * * * * * THE YOUNG LAWYER’S FIRST CASE. BY JOHN TODD.