I & Sigh. T was nothing but a rose I gave her, – Any wind might rob of half its savor, When she took it from my trembling fingers Ah, the flying touch upon them lingers, Withered, faded, pressed between the pages, Crumpled fold on fold, Once it lay upon her breast, and ages Cannot make it old! H. P. SPOFFORD. NO MORE. No More. THIS is the Burden of the Heart, We live to love; we meet to part; And part to meet on earth No More. There is a time for tears to start, For dews to fall and larks to soar : The Time for Tears, is when we part To meet upon the earth No More: The Time for Tears, is when we part To meet on this wide earth - No More. B. F. WILLSON. The Port of Ships." BEHIND him lay the gray Azores, Behind the Gates of Hercules; Before him not the ghost of shores, The good mate said: "Now must we pray, Brave Adm'ral speak, — what shall I say?" "My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly, wan and weak." 'Sail on! Sail on! Sail on! and on!"" They sailed, and sailed, as winds might blow, to a Young Girl Dying. WITH A GIFT OF FRESH PALM-LEAVES. HIS is Palm Sunday: mindful of the day, THIS I bring palm branches, found upon my way: But these will wither; thine shall never die, The sacred palms thou bearest to the sky! Dear little saint, though but a child in years, Older in wisdom than my gray compeers! We doubt and tremble, we, with bated breath, Then take my palms, triumphal, to thy home, T. W. PARSONS. |