The thorns which former days had sown
To crops of late repentance grown,

Through which we toil at last,

Whilst every care's a driving harm

That helps to bear us down,
Which faded smiles no more can charm,
But every tear's a winter storm,
And every look's a frown.

ANNE, COUNTESS OF WINCHELSEA.

A COMMON STORY.

So!

O the truth's out! I'll snake;

I was so happy I could make him blest,
So happy that I was his first and best,
As he mine when he took me to his breast.

Ah me! if only then he had been true!
If for one little year, a month or two,
He had given me love for love, as was my
due!

Or had he told me ere the deed was done
He only raised me to his heart's dear
throne--

Poor substitute !-because the queen was
gone;

It will not slay me. My heart shall not Or had he whispered when his sweetest kiss

break

A while, if only for the children's sake.

For his too, somewhat. Let him stand un-
blamed,
None say he

claimed,

Was warm upon my mouth in fancied bliss
He had kissed another woman like to this,-

It were less bitter. Sometimes I could weep
To be so cheated, like a child asleep,

gave me less than honor Were not the anguish far too dry and deep.

DUEL BETWEEN MR. CLAY AND MR. RANDOLPH.

FROM "THIRTY YEARS' VIEW, BY A SENATOR."

T was Saturday, the first day | tomed on a report of the words spoken-a of April, toward noon, the verbal report, the full daily publication of Senate not being that day the debates having not then begun-and in session, that Mr. Ran- that verbal report was of a character greatdolph came to my room at ly to exasperate Mr. Clay. It stated that in Brown's Hotel and (with- the course of the debate Mr. Randolph said out explaining the reason that a letter from Gen. Salazar, the Mexican of the question) asked me minister at Washington, submitted by the if I was a blood-relation Executive to the Senate, bore the earmark of Mrs. Clay. I answered of having been manufactured or forged by that I was, and he imme- the Secretary of State, and denounced the diately replied that that put administration as a corrupt coalition between an end to a request which he had wished to the puritan and blackleg, and added, at the make of me, and then went on to tell me same time, that he (Mr. Randolph) held himthat he had just received a challenge from self personally responsible for all that he had Mr. Clay, had accepted it, was ready to go said. This was the report to Mr. Clay, and out, and would apply to Col. Tatnall to be upon which he gave the absolute challenge his second. Before leaving he told me he and received the absolute acceptance which would make my bosom the depository of a shut out all inquiry between the principals secret which he should commit to no other into the causes of the quarrel. The seconds person it was that he did not intend to fire determined to open it, and to attempt an acat Mr. Clay. He told it to me because he commodation or a peaceable determination of wanted a witness of his intention, and did the difficulty. In consequence, Gen. Jesup not mean to tell it to his second or anybody stated the complaint in a note to Col. Tatelse, and enjoined inviolable secrecy until the nall, thus: duel was over. This was the first notice I had of the affair.

"The injury of which Mr. Clay complains consists in this-that Mr. Randolph has charged him with having forged or manufactured a paper connected with the Panama mission; also that he has applied to him in debate the epithet of blackleg. The explanation which I consider necessary is that Mr. Randolph declare that he had no intention of charging Mr. Clay, either in his public or private capacity, with forging