er.

In less than three months from the date of Saint Antonio's flight
through the window into the hot, dusty street, Guiseppina
voluntarily--oh, how voluntarily!--renounced the name of Pace for ever
and took that of Garelli.

If you want to know if Saint or Satan made his match for him, you had
better ask Cesare Garelli himself. I cannot tell you.

A. BERESFORD.

IN A BERNESE VALLEY.

I met her by this mountain stream
At twilight's fall long years gone by,
While, rosy with day's afterbeam,
Yon snow-peaks glowed against the sky;

And she was but a simple maid
Who fed her goats among the hills,
And sang her songs within the glade,
And caught the music of the rills;

And drank the fragrance of the flowers
That bloomed within love-haunted dells;
And wandered home in gloaming hours,
Amid the sound of tinkling bells.

And now I'm in this vale again,
And once more hear the tinkling sound;
But yet 'tis not the same as when
That maiden 'mid her flock I found.

And still the rosy light of morn
Steals soft o'er mount and stream and tree;
And yet I hear the Alpine horn,
But the old charm is lost to me;

For I would see that angel face,
And hear again the simple tale
Which to that twilight lent the grace
That changed this to Arcadian vale.

It cannot be: my dream is o'er;
No more among the hills she'll roam;
No more she'll sing the songs of yore;
Or call the weary cattle home;

For she is in her bed of rest,
Encompassed all with gentians blue,
With Edelweiss upon her breast,
And by her head wild thyme and rue.

Sweet _Angelus_, from yon church-tower,
That floatest now so soft and clear,
Ring back again that golden hour
When I still sat beside her here!

ALEXANDER LAMONT.

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