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merit, and the hand which wielded it with the greatest dexterity was chosen to direct the community.

The youthful soldier, ardent and enthusiastic, was ever in search of some object on which to display his valour: the fair sex at length caught and fixed his attention, tournaments and feats of arms were instituted to display his devotion to the cause of beauty and virtue in distress, and love and religion were blended-love became wildly romantic, religion was enthusiastically venerated-the name of woman was held as sacred as that of religion, and both, as dear to the heart of every knight-errant as that of the idol, Honour! they were blended with each other -the passions held the reins, and religion, though contemplated with enthusiasm, was too often made to bow before the shrine of love and romance.

THE END.

AND

POETICAL REMAINS

OF THE LATE

MARGARET MILLER DAVIDSON.

BY WASHINGTON IRVING.

l'hou wert unfit to dwell with clay,

For sin too pure, for earth too bright!

And Death, who call'd thee hence away,
Plac'd on his brow a gem of light!

MARGARET TO HER SISTER.

A New Edition, revised.

PHILADELPHIA:

LEA AND BLANCHARD.

ENTERED, according to the Act of Congress, in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty-one, by WASHINGTON IRVING, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.

J. FAGAN, STEREOTYPER.

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