Letitia Elizabeth Landon

“ See, I have got this silver shell,
Mark how my breath will its smallness swell,
For the Nautilus is my boat
In which I over the waters float,—
The moon is shining over the sea,
Who is there will come sail with me? ”

“ Dance we round, for the morning light
Will put us and our glow-worm lamps to flight!*
⁠* These beautiful lines are extracted from an early volume of Miss Landon's Poems, ("The Troubadour.") They were written a short time after the picture was painted. Mr. Howard's "Fairies on the Sea Shore" was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1825; and is the property of Sir Matthew White Ridley. ”