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had by Colonel Michael Wentworth. returned. Charles dishing, Esq., not

She was buried beside her first husband distantly related to Hon. Caleb Cush-

in the churchyard of St. John's, in ing, purchased the place in 181 7, and

Portsmouth. his widow, the daughter of Senator

The mansion at Little Harbor con- Jacob Sheafe, long resided there. The

tinued to be occupied by the second mansion and surrounding estate is now

Martha Wentworth, who was also a the property of Mr. Mathew B. Israel,

Lady, her husband being Sir John whose wife has Sheafe, Cushing, and

Wentworth, until 18 16, when they went Wentworth blood flowing in one rich

to England, from whence they never stream in her aristocratic veins.

��THE COMING OF JUNE.

��BY HOPE HUNTINGTON.

When the gladsome earth discloses

All her fragrant, queenly roses, And the thrush and swallow warble all in tune,

And the wood and meadow smiling,

Call their subjects all beguiling, Then from up the shining orient comes the June.

Lovelier than the springtime maiden,

And with richer treasures laden ; Come ! with deeper beauty on thy glowing mien !

We would hear thy low, sweet singing,

Over hill and valley ringing, Come ! with sky-blue eyes, and breath of eglantine !

Foam and wave, oh em'rald grasses,

Make a pathway when she passes ; Sing, oh lark, a merry welcome loud and clear !

And with joy we'll end the measure,

With a glad sweet cry of pleasure, Shouting, ''June, of months the fairest, June is here !"

"Perfect bloom of rare completeness,

Rich in fresh, unconscious sweetness, Gladly would we yield her Earth's most precious boon !

Yet the best that we could render,

Would be lost amid the splendor, And the ever-radiant glory of the June !"

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