S. Valentino Again.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2531, 15 February 1877, Page 2

S. Valentino Again.

Although yesterday was the day appropriated to diffusion of rhymes and uncomplimentary pictures, yet up to a jate-tt hour yesterday evening might groups of ™ people be seen in the shops of those who sell these sorts of things—the female sex predominating—making their purchases, and as it was obvious that they could not be sent through the post.that night they must have been purchased by those who act on the principle of better, late than never, and it struck us' as, looking in at the windows of the shops, and hearing the gentler sex consulting together, and such phras.es as these, " that will' pay him out," " that will just do," &c.,*and noted that the valentines chosen were the reverse of complimentary either in picture pr rhyme, < that some of these fair ones had themselves received valentines which, not being adequate to their merits,- "they had guessed the senders and had determined, to use their own phrase, " to pay him out." Now we, in our editorial capacity, • received no valentine yesterday, but* to-day received the following, which,' as it contains really good advice, we publish, suppressing, of course, the name of the * person whom we guess to be the Author :— . • -:

TO MY OWN, MY GUIDING. STAR. Ere science to its present height had grown-, And lime-light lanterns were as things unknown, When no Academy was built to show The way revolving 1 moons their course should go;"•; < Whe:i men, like brokers now^ did nought in 'shares, I Save but to share iie skins of wolves m and bears ; When, at each feast wasiio one to express ■ In high-flow words the virtues of the.Press; When shilling weeds were never smoked by those ;\Vho walked about with insufficient clothes; The mind cf man was curiousthen, as now, The hidden secrets of "his fate to know. No Advertiser's page had he'to see , •, * ; >- • Results of things-which might or might not be; ? Bui if, as on this day, his thoughts on love ' :Be cast, he could but cast his eye above, : •And read in that bespangled starry sky His love, liis hopes, perchance his destiny. Changed is the time since stars prophetic taught What should hereafter-be to these who sought To know what should be ; yet as history's p«g« . , Repeats itself with each revolving age J < ■-'"* :i >>J: To those who would the future strive to learn, S' v i 'And by the past things coming to discern > -. -' To each and all the same advice is g»v«n; . "Try not to rtad the «ters which shine inihwVen }' tx Let not your mind be set on things so far, But to know all things read THE EVENING" STAR."