The deserted wife

“RETRIBUTION, OR THE VALE OF SHADOWS.”

“Various the ways in which our souls are tried; Love often fails where most our faith relied; Some wayward heart may win without a thought, That which thine own by sacrifice hath bought; Whilst thou, forsaken, grieving, left to pine, Vainly mayst claim his plighted faith as thine; Vainly with forced indulgence strive to smile In the cold world, heart-broken all the while, Or from its glittering and unquiet crowd, Thy brain on fire, thy spirit crushed and bowed, Creep home unnoticed, there to weep alone, Mocked by a claim that gives thee not thine own, Which leaves thee bound through all thy blighted youth To him whose perjured soul hath broke its truth; While the just world beholding thee bereft— Scorns—not his sin—but thee, for being left.” MRS. NORTON’S DREAM.

NEW YORK: D. APPLETON & COMPANY, 200 BROADWAY. PHILADELPHIA: GEO. S. APPLETON, 164 CHESNUT-STREET. M DCCC L.

Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1850, BY D. APPLETON & COMPANY, In the Clerk’s Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York.