Suggestions For Valentine's Day

Either write "G. M. V." or "Good Morro w, Valentine," on every missive sentón St. Valentine's Day. ïlieexpression comes f rom Shakespeare' lines in "Hamlet," Act IV, Scène V.: (Jood morrow; tis Saint VHlentlue'sday, All in lile morniíiK betiine; And I a niaid ui yonr wiudow To be y oor valeiiiine. Valentines from the storen do very well, but those contrived by friends have more of a personal touch. The verses in the "bought Valentines,'" as the children cali them, are too often flat or ambiguous. Rere are some selections tliat may be found useful : Go, lovely rose I Teil her that wastes lier time on me That iïow she knows. Wheii I resemble her to thee, How sweet aud fair she seems to be. - (Waller. Sing abaln, with your dear volee revealing A tune Of some world far Irom ours. Where music and luoonliglit and feeling Are one. - (Shelley. All love is sweet, Given or returned. Common as light is love, And iis familiar voíee weartes not even. ïhey who inspire il most arp i'ortunate, As 1 am nuw ; but those wlio feel it most Are happier slill. - (öhelley. Oh, mv love is like a red, red rose, That's newly spru gin June; Oh, my love is like the melodie Thttl's sweelly played in tune - (Burns. My hearl is given unto you O give yours unto me; Well luck them up logether And tlirowtiwuy the key. - (Anon. 'Twere valn to teil thee all I feel, Or tay fur thee ld die. - tWade. Üidst thou but know the inly touch oí love, ïhou wouldst as soon go kindie fire with snow As seek lo quencli the flre ol love with words. - (Shakespeare But he wlio sterns a stream with sand, And letters ñame with flaxen band. Has yet a harder task to prove - By lirm resolve to conquer love. - (.Scolt's Lady of the Lake. Yes love indeed Is light from heaven, A spark of tbat imniortai lire, Witb angels shar'd by Allah given To lift irom earth our low;deiie. - (Byrou The bee thro' many a garden roves, And hums the lay 01 couriship o'er But, when he liuds the tlower lie loves He settles there, and hunis no more. - lMoore. Oh ! were my love a hl ossom , Wheu suniraer skles depart, I'd piant her u my bosom. And wear her near ïuy heart! Love?- I will teil thee what il Is to love:- It is to build witü huinau thoughts a shine, Where Hope sits Oroodiug like a beauleous dove - Where time seems young, and life a thing divine; . . . Of all life's sweets, tne very sweetest yet! -(Charles Swaln. So gnze met gaze, And heart saw heart, trauslucid through the rays. One same, harmonious, universal law. Atoni to atoiD, star to Rtar can draw, And heart to heart! Swlft darts.as from the sun, The stroug attraction, and the charm is done ! -(Tht New Timon. As nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So Love lives upon the living light Of nature and ot beauty, - Feeding lts bouIs upon the soft, and sweet, And delicate imaginings of song. - (Bailey's festus. There is a garden in her face, Where roses and white lilies show. - (Anon. The last one dates back to 1606, when Richard Alison set it to music.