He that can love unloved again, Hath better store of love than brain: God send me love my debts to pay, While unthrifts fool their love away. Nothing could have my love o'erthrown, When new desires had conquer'd thee, Not constancy, to love thee still. Yet do thou glory in thy choice, SCHOOL DAYS BY THE REV. DR. MALTBIE D. BABCOCK Lord, let me make this rule, To stand each test, And nothing shirk. Should some one else outshine This dullard head of mine, Should I be sad? I will be glad. If weary with my book Are best to win. Dost take my book away Anon to let me play, And let me out Thee for recess. Then recess past, alack, To learn my part. These lessons Thou dost give To do, to bear, To get and share, What though I may not ask Thou hast decreed To meet my need. Some day the bell will sound Some day my heart will bound, As with a shout That school is out And lessons done, I homeward run! LIFE "Animula, vagula, blandula.”- EMPEROR HADRIAN BY ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Life! I know not what thou art, But this I know, when thou art fled, As all that then remains of me. O, whither, whither dost thou fly, Where bend unseen thy trackless course, And in this strange divorce, Ah, tell where I must seek this compound I? To the vast ocean of empyreal flame, Dost thou thy flight pursue, when freed Wait, like some spell-bound knight, Through blank, oblivious years the appointed hour Life! we've been long together Through pleasant and through cloudy weather; "Tis hard to part when friends are dear, Perhaps 't will cost a sigh, a tear; Choose thine own time; Say not Good Night, — but in some brighter clime Bid me Good Morning. THE NEW YEAR LEDGER BY AMELIA E. BARR I said one year ago, "I wonder, if I truly kept I took a ledger fair and fine, "And now," I said, "when days are glad, "I will not heed the changing skies, "Or if to any one I love A blessing meets them on the way, |