Minutes filled with shadeless gladness,
Minutes just as brimmed with sadness;
Happy smiles and wailing cries,
Crows and laughs and tearful eyes;
Lights and shadows swifter born
Than on wind-swept Autumn corn
Ever some new tiny notion,
Making every limb all motion;
Catchings up of legs and arms,
Throwings back, and small alarms;
Clutching fingers, straightening jerks,
Twining feet, whose each toe works;
Hands all wants, and looks all wonder,
At all things the heavens under ; . . .
Mischiefs done with such a winning
Archness, that we prize such sinning..
Silences-small meditations,

Deep as thoughts of cares for nations,
Breaking into wisest speeches
In a tongue that nothing teaches,
All the thoughts of whose possessing
Must be wooed to light by guessing;
Slumbers-such sweet angel-seemings,
That we'd ever have such dreamings,
Till from sleep we see thee breaking,
And we'd always have thee waking;
Wealth for which we know no measure,
Pleasure high above all pleasure;
Gladness brimming over gladness,
Joy in care-delight in sadness;
Loveliness beyond completeness,
Sweetness distancing all sweetness;
Beauty all that beauty may be-
That's May Bennett, that's my baby,

FRANCIS W. BOURDILLON.

LIGHT.

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one ;

Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.
The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

G. LINNEUS BANKS.

WHAT I LIVE FOR.

I live for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true;
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;

For all human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes yet to find me,
And the good that I can do.

I live to learn their story
Who suffered for my sake;

To emulate their glory,

And follow in their wake; Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages, The heroic of all ages,

Whose deeds crowd History's pages,

And Time's great volume make.

I live to hold communion

With all that is divine,

To feel there is a union

'Twixt Nature's heart and mine;

To profit by affliction,

Reap truth from fields of fiction,
Grow wiser from conviction,

And fulfil God's great design.

I live for those who love me,
For those who know me true,
For the Heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit too;

For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,
And the good that I can do.

EDWARD FALKENER.

A GREEK EPIGRAM.

On the Statue of a Satyr in Mosaic.
In the Appendix to "Dædalus."

SPECTATOR.

Satyrs deal in pert grimaces;
Saucy Satyr, prithee say,
Why you look in all our faces
Thus to laughter giving way?

SATYR.

When was such a laughing matter ? When was such a wonder known?

All at once I'm grown a Satyr

Out of these odd bits of stone!

RICHARD GARNETT.

THE LYRICAL POEM.

Example of an Elegiac Couplet.
Hexameter and Pentameter.
Passion the fathomless spring,
and words the precipitate waters,
Rhythm the bank that binds these
to their musical bed.

ANON.

From SCHILLER'S THREE WORDS OF BELIEFFREEDOM, VIRTUE, GOD.

Though all Things in circle incessantly roll, There endures amid changes a changeless Soul.

AUGUSTUS HARE.

See Memorials of a Quiet Life.
Our evil deeds hurt our neighbours,
Our evil thoughts hurt ourselves.

From THE LITTLE ONES.

Where does the good God find the days?
Every day! Every day! Every day!

And what becomes of all the days,
When we have done with them?

AMERICAN POETS.

WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT.

THE LOVE OF GOD.

From the Provençal of Bernard Rascas.

All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for

aye.

The forms of men shall be as they had never been; The blasted groves shall lose their fresh and tender

green.

And realms shall be dissolved, and empires be no

more,

And they shall bow to death, who ruled from shore

to shore ;

And the great globe itself, so the holy writings tell, With the rolling firmament, where the starry armies dwell,

Shall melt with fervent heat-they shall all pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for

aye.