Let every sacred fane Call its sad votaries to the shrine of God, And, with the cloister and the tented sod, He, who, till time shall cease, Will watch that earth, where once, not all in vain, He died to give us peace, may not disdain A prayer whose theme is Perhaps ere yet the Spring peace. Hath died into the Suminer, over all The land, the Peace of His vast love shall fall, Like some protecting wing. Oh, ponder what it means! Oh, turn the rapturous thought in every way! Peace in the quiet dales, Made rankly fertile by the blood of men, 12 SONGS FROM THE SOUTH-LAND. Peace in the crowded town, Peace in the thousand fields of waving grain, Peace on the farthest seas, Peace in our sheltered bays and ample streams, Peace on the whirring marts, Peace where the scholar thinks the hunter roams, Peace, God of Peace! Peace, peace, in all our homes, And peace in all our hearts! LA BELLE JUIVE. HENRY TIMROD. Is it because your sable hair Or is it that the thoughts which rise That choose whatever pose or place The crowd is sauntering at its ease. And humming like a hive of bees— |