Alice Cary was born in Mount Healthy, near Cincinnati, Ohio, April 20,
1820. Her first book of poems, with her sister Phoebe, was published
in 1850. Her poems and prose writings were pictures from life and
nature, among which were _Pictures of Memory_, _Mulberry Hill_,
_Coming Home_ and _Nobility_. She died at her home in New York City,
February 12, 1871. This poem is inscribed to the _London Punch_.