DISCONTENT-(Continued) He'd like a fifty-cent cigar, A butler and a private car, Champagne, and a soft bed, at night. -JULIAN STREET. BEYOND A DARKENING sky and a whitening sea And the winds in the pine trees tall! Soon or late comes the call for me Then let me lie where I fall. And a friend may write, for friends there be, "Jungle and town and reef and sea, I have loved God's earth and God's earth loved me, Take it for all in all." -DAVID STARR JORDAN. SING DESTINY INCE Bethlehem's Child was born There is no manger so forlorn From out that manger came our God. Let us beware how we pass by That child may be the future State. -THOMAS R. MARSHALL. (Vice-President.) Lines suggested during the Reunion of the Veterans at Gettysburg, 1912, when standing in the barn that had served as a hospital, at which the author attended the wounded of both armies. THE GETTYSBURG REUNION THE What love of Country bids us heed, That from this strife shall spring the seed Of Reunion in thought and deed. East, West and North shall stand as shield, -SIMON BARUCH, M.D. PRAIRIE MEMORIES MEMORY, what conjury is thine! Once more the sun shines on the wheat, The odorous windrows rank by rank. From granite pavements ceaseless clank, -HAMLIN GARLAND. I SWEET SAINT CHARITY cannot do what you propose: because e'en what I write in prose they say could scarce be worse. Did I essay a lyre to use, I'm very sure my limping muse would make no limpid verse. I'm not averse, you understand, to give the bairns a helping hand for needed milk and nurses; but by experience I've learned that love, so far as I'm concerned, can't be expressed in verses. You may, however, in due time, expect a check not writ in rhyme, for "Sweet Saint Charity"; and with it this enheartening word, "Who helps my bairnies, saith the Lord, hath done it unto me.". -REV. DAVID J. BURRELL. |