Each heart was joyous then,—and now,

(Just half-a-century after),—

We banish care from every brow,

We welcome mirth and laughter.

Life's spring may be a season meet
For love, and lovers' kisses;

Yet autumn joys are doubly sweet
On such a day as this is!

When Past and Present, linked-in-one,
Their goodly stores out-spreading,
Bring back the days long past and gone
To bless a Golden Wedding.

For bride and bridegroom be our prayer,
So far as fate may spare them,—
That each the other's griefs may bear;
Their joys-that both may share them.
SAMUEL WADDINGTON.

TILL DEATH.

Two hands held in one clasp,
Two hearts bound in one chain,

Two bosoms beating warm,
Loving, beloved again.

Two smiles of fervent faith
On each caressing cheek,
Two voices soft and low,

As whispering angels speak.

Two figures kneeling glad

Before the sacred shrine, Two vows of mutual love

Exchanged in sight divine.

Two coffins, side by side, Beneath the daisied sod, Two spirits dwelling in

The perfect rest of God.

Once a Week.

YES! We go gently down the hill of life,
And thank our God at every step we go;
The husband-lover and the sweetheart-wife.
Of creeping age what do we care or know?
Each says to each, "Our fourscore years, thrice told,
Would leave us young: " the Soul is never old!
What is the Grave to us? can it divide

The destiny of two by God made one?
We step across and reach the other side,

To know our blended Life is but begun. These fading faculties are sent to say Heaven is more near to-day than yesterday.

S. C. HALL.

[Written by Mr. Hall to commemorate the fifty-sixth anniversary of his wedding-day, and jointly signed on that day by himself and Mrs. Hall.]

LISTEN! I'll tell you what I think is best,

Who've dream'd all dreams for which men laugh

or weep:

Arms round you wrapp'd, a head upon your breast, Of one that loves you, nestling half-asleep.

T. ASHE.

Aïdé, Hamilton, 23, 87.

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 4, 131.
Akenside, Mark, 25.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey, 17, 95, 96.
Allingham, William, 10, 74.
Anonymous, see Unknown.
Armstrong, Edmund John, 110.
Armstrong, George Francis, 63, 65.
Arnold, Edwin, 67, 117.
Arnold, Matthew, 36, 74 ii.
Ashby-Sterry, J., 11, 52 ii., 73, 119.
Ashe, Thomas, *38, 122, *145.
Austin, Alfred, 15 ii., 16, 21 ii., 95.

Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman," 8, 46, 102,

123, 124, 130, 143.

Author of "Mrs. Jerningham's Journal," 92, 128 ii.,

129, 140.

Author of "Olrig Grange," see Smith, Walter C.

"Bab' Ballads," see Gilbert, W. S.

Bailey, Philip James, 32, 35, 43 ii., 44 ii., 54, 67.
Bayly, Thomas Haynes, 66, 78, 135.
Barham, Richard Harris, 15, 121.
Barnes, William, 48, 55, *81, 103.

Beaumont (Francis) and Fletcher (Phineas), 123.
Bennett, William Cox, 124, 133, 140.

Blackie, John Stuart, 6, 49, 65, 102, 130, 140.
Bickersteth, Edward Henry, 126 ii.
Bishop, Samuel, 132.

Blake, William, 8.

Brainard, John Gardner Calkins, 122.

Breton, Nicholas, 74.

Brown, Rowland, 125.

Browne, William, 27.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, 16, 20, 28, 65, 76, 105.
Browning, Robert, 86.