For the Southern Literary Messenger.

Lines Written in an Album.

Eliza! — let thy generous heart
    From its present pathway part not!
Being every thing which now thou art,
    Be nothing which thou art not.

So with the world thy gentle ways —
    Thy unassuming beauty —
And truth shall be a theme of praise
    Forever — and love a duty.          E. A. P.

Setembro de 1845. "Eliza" era Eliza White, filha de Thomas W. White, o dono do Southern Literary Messenger .