... By Maurice Smiley I. I saw three walking, and of all I loved The Second best, the likest unto me. The First had fellowship with brutes, and on His brow was stamped the brand of hate and sin. No pain of penitence was in his eyes No dream of higher things was in his heart. He knew no law but self, and never gazed Above the mire. With ravening hand he struck His climbing comrade down and snatched ...

... OUR POETS' CORNER NATURE'S HEART When fir t you fred my passion's hope And set my trembl n heart aglow, When first yo r b^auly stirred my soul To feel the rapture lovers kt.ow, 7 was then 1 longed to cry aloud The mag c dreams that stirred my blood. No min or vvoman knew my joy, 1 was Nature's heart that understood. Now you have s'ain my burn ng hope And made me comrade with despa r, Now that ...

... CONFESSION Dearest Phyllis, 1 judge you are jealous I read it each eve in your eyes. Is it simply my zeal seems less zealous, Or what is the fault you surmise You are sure there's some rival distraction That dusk in the garden supplies, And for marital vows in infraction Slug-hunting is but a disguise. Who are Miriam, Helen, and other Names loving'y lisped when I dream You're resolved at all ...

... J SAW three ships come sa ling in On Christmas Day, on Christ mas Day I saw three ships come sailing in On Christmas Day in the morning. Pray whither sailed those ships all three On Christmas Day, on Christ mas Day Pray whither sailed those ships all three On Christmas Day in the morning Oh, they sailed into Bethlehem On Christmas Day, on Christ mas Day Oh, they sailed into Bethlehem On ...

... From QH, strange indifference I low and high Drowsed over common joys and cares The earth was still but knew not why. The world was listening, unawares. How calm a moment may precede One that shall thrill the world for ever I To that still moment none would heed, Man's doom was linked, no more to sever In the solemn midnight. Centuries ago I It is the calm and solemn night 1 A thousand bells ...

... 4^f_g i AN EMIGRANT MOTHER'S CHRISTMAS LULLABY j l i IP m jn> tvf t vj p iMHji>utuiyTVfoi^>>> i v [x^j^^:[ARK the woods of our wilderness are; Afi5| Snows, encumbering, shroud their .TiJPo) slumbering. High in Heaven a silvery star, Whitely glimmering, brightly shimmering, Looks on river and cabin and tree, Beams, my baby, on you and me. Shine O Star of the diadem That glowed over Mary at ...

... In my lady's room about Ninety years ago Chairs with arms and chairs without Then stood in a row While on curtain and on wall, In old-fashioned tints, Roses rambled and 'twas all Chippendale and chintz. Fashions wax and wane, and when Fifty years are spent, What my lady loved is then To an attic sent. Crinolines, alack 1 are worn (See the fashion prints), Crinolines whose wearers scorn ...

... By Thomas Hardy, O.M. Would that I'd not drawn breath here!'' some one said, To stalk upon this stage of evil deeds. Where purposelessly month by month proceeds A play so sorely shaped and blood-bespread. Yet had his spark not quickened, but lain dead To the gross spectacles of this our day, And never put on the proffered cloak of clay. He had but not known things now manifested Life would ...

... . By Thomas Hardy. By Corporal Tullidge. In Memory of S.C. (pensioner) died 184-. We trenched, we trumpeted and drummed, And from our mortars tons of iron hummed Ath'art the ditch, the month we bombed The town o' Valencieen. Twas in the June o' Ninety-dree (The Duke o' Yark our then Commander been) The German Legion, Guards, and we Laid siege to Valencieen. This was the first time in the war ...

... 0 Eve, whate'er it was of old Those days of which our parents speak When women did what they were told, And stayed at home six days a week, The wheel has turned full circle noiv, And freedom with both hands you seize, And mocking model German frau, You do as you please. By force majeure you've opened wide The portals of each male retreat, Our clubs, where once you were denied, Noiv echo to ...

... THROUGH THE TOWN A New Nursery Rhyme. The REVELLERS they went through the town, through the town, through the town, The Revellers they went through the town at ONE o'clock in the morning. And all they said as they rioted through Was Humpty dooden' and Humpty do! The WATCHMEN they went through the town, through the towb, through the town, The Watchmen they went through the town at TWO o'clock ...

... Now, the scream ing had subsided, and faces were in a glow, and curls in a tangle, and Air. Pickwick, after kissing the old lady as before mentioned, was standing under the mistletoe, looking with a very pleased counte nance on all that xvas passing around him, when the young lady with the black eyes, after a little whispering with the other young ladies, made a sudden dart forward and putting ...