GANSEVOORT - LANSING

COLLECTION

Cooper, J.F. Works, 1857-60,

v.20. Mercedes

NBO

Kate Gansevoort.

Witte Uncle by Love!?
hand but 1864

MERCEDES OF CASTILE;

OR,

THE VOYAGE TO CATHAY

BY J. FENIMORE COOPER.

I fill this cup to one made up of loveliness alone,

A woman, of her gentle sex the seeming paragon;
To whom the better elements and kindly stars have given

A form so fair, that, like the air, 'tis less of earth than heaven.