l, thy greedy self consum'd,
Then long Eternity shall greet our bliss
With an individual kiss;
And Joy shall overtake us as a flood;
When everything that is sincerely good
And perfectly divine,
With Truth, and Peace, and Love shall ever shine
About the supreme Throne
Of Him, t' whose happy-making sight alone,
When once our heav'nly-guided soul shall climb,
Then all this earthly grossness quit,
Attir'd with stars, we shall forever sit,
Triumphing over Death, and Chance, and thee,
O Time.

The Knight in the Wood

BY E. LEICESTER WARREN.

(Lord de Tabley.)

The thing itself was rough and crudely done,
Cut in coarse stone, spitefully placed aside
As merest lumber, where the light was worst
On a back staircase. Overlooked it lay
In a great Roman palace crammed with art.
It had no number in the list of gems
Weeded away, long since pushed out and banished,
Before insipid Guidos over-sweet
And Dolce's rose sensationalities,
And curly chirping angels, spruce as birds.
And yet the motive of this thing ill-hewn
And hardly seen did touch me. O, indeed,
The skill-less hand that carved it had belonged
To a most yearning and bewildered brain:
There was such desolation in the work;
And through its utter failure the thing spoke
With more of human message, heart to heart,
Than all these faultless, smirking, skin-deep saints,
In artificial troubles picturesque,
And martyred sweetly, not one curl awry.--
Listen; a clumsy knight, who rode alone
Upon a stumbling jade in a great wood
Belated. The poor beast, with head low-bowed
Snuffing the ground. The rider leant
Forward to sound the marish with his lance.
The wretched rider and the hide-bound steed,
You saw the place was deadly; that doomed pair,
Feared to advance, feared to return.--That's all.

"A Little Feminine Casabianca"[A]

BY GEORGE MADDEN MARTIN.

(_Arranged by Maude Herndon and Grace Kellam._)

[By permission of the publishers and the author we reprint two
cuttings from stories in "Emmy Lou." There are ten stories in
the book, all of them excellent readings. McClure, Phillips &
Co., New York.]

The Primer Class according to the degree of its precocity was divided in
three sections. Emmy Lou belonged to the third section. It was the last
section, and she was the last one in it, though she had no idea what a
section meant nor why she was in