Oh, Maud and Madge, dream on together,
With never a pang of jealous fear;
For ere the bitter St. Agnes weather
year,

Shall whiten another

Robed for the bridal and robed for the tomb, Braided brown hair and golden tress, There'll be only one of you left for the bloom

Of the bearded lips to press

Only one for the bridal pearls,

The robe of satin and Brussels lace; Only one to blush through her curls

At the sight of a lover's face.

Oh, beautiful Madge, in your bridal white,

For you the revel has just begun,

But for her who sleeps in your arms to-night The revel of life is done.

But, robed and crowned with your saintly bliss,

Queen of heaven and bride of the sun, Oh, beautiful Maud, you'll never miss The kisses another hath won.

NORA PERRY.

One day, before our wondering eyes,
Expanded by an inward power,
The infant bud became a flower
In all the hues of Paradise.

The gift was taken in full bloom ;
But flowers their odors leave behind,
With Memory's sweet and sad perfume.
Diffusing all the tempered wind

EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN.

THE TOMBS IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY.

ORTALITY, behold and fear!

What a change of flesh is here!
Think how many royal bones
Sleep within these heaps of stones!
Here they lie, had realms and lands,
Who now want strength to stir their hands,
Where from their pulpits sealed with dust
They preach, "In greatness is no trust."

Here's an acre sown indeed
With the richest, royallest seed
That the earth did e'er suck in
Since the first man died for sin;
Here the bones of birth have cried,
"Though gods they were, as men they died!"
Here are sands, ignoble things,

Dropt from the ruined sides of kings;

Here's a world of pomp and state

JAMES AND HORACE SMITH.

JAM

AMES SMITH was born in 1775, and died in 1839; his brother Horace was born in 1779, and died in 1849. On the rebuilding of the Drury Lane Theatre, in London, in 1812, the gifted brothers conceived the idea of composing a set of "Rejected Addresses," purporting to have been written for the opening night by the principal poets of the day. The work was issued anonymously, and met with great success, from the verisimilitude of the parodies. Among them that of Wordsworth, here presented, was declared by the critic Jeffrey to be a flattering imitation of the poet's style in the Lyrical Ballads. Wordsworth succeeded in discomfit

ing his enemies, and rose to greater heights of poetry. Many of the abused ballads also became very popular.

TO HIS WIFE.

Y DEAR WIFE: Remember thou wast the love of my youth, and much the joy of my life-the most beloved as well as most worthy of all my earthly comforts; and the reason of that love was more thy inward than thy outward excellencies, which yet were many. God knows, and thou know

est it, I can say it was a match of Providence's making; and God's image in us both was the first thing, and the most amiable and engaging ornament in our eyes. Now I am to leave thee, and that without knowing whether I shall ever see thee more in this world take my counsel into thy bosom, and let it dwell with thee in my stead while thou livest. . . . And now, my dearest, let me recommend to thy care my dear children, abundantly beloved of me as the Lord's blessings and the sweet pledges of our mutual and endeared affection. Above all things endeavor to breed them up in the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have lived in, that the world in no part of it get into my family. I had rather they were homely than finely bred as to outward behavior; yet I love sweetness mixed with gravity and cheerfulness tempered with sobriety. Religion in the heart leads into this true civility, teaching men and women to be mild and courteous in

their behavior-an accomplishment worthy indeed of praise.

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Next, breed them in love one of another; tell them it is the charge I left behind me, and that it is the way to have the love and blessing of God upon them. Sometimes separate them, but not long, and allow them to send and give each other small things to endear one another with.

Once inore I say tell them it was my counsel they should be tender and affectionate one to another. For their learning be liberal. Spare no cost, for by such parsimony all is lost that is saved; but let it be useful knowledge, such as is consistent with truth and godliness, not cherishing a vain conversation or idle mind. But ingenuity mixed with industry is good for the body and the mind too. I recommend the useful parts of mathematics, as building houses or ships, measuring, surveying, dialling, navigation, but agriculture is especially in my eye: let my children be husbandmen and housewives-it is industrious, healthy, honest and of good example-like Abraham and the holy ancients, who pleased God and obtained a good report. This leads to consider the works of God and nature, of things that are good, and diverts the mind from being taken up with the vain arts and inventions. of a luxurious world. Rather keep an ingenious person in the house to teach them than send them to schools, too many evil impressions being commonly received there. Be sure to observe their genius, and do not

cross it as to learning: let them not dwell too long on one thing, but let their change be agreeable and all their diversions have some little bodily labor in them. When grown big, have most care for them; for then there are more snares both within and without. When marriageable, see that they have worthy persons in their eye, of good life and good fame for piety and understanding. I need no wealth, but sufficiency. And be sure their love be dear, fervent and mutual, that it may be happy for them. I choose not they should be married to earthly covetous kindred; and of cities and towns of concourse beware: the world is apt to stick close to those who have lived and got wealth there. A country life and estate I like best for my children; I prefer a decent mansion of an hundred pounds per annum before ten thousand pounds in London, or such like place, in a way of trade.

TO HIS CHILDREN.

Be obedient to your dear mother--a woman whose virtue and good name is an honor to you; for she hath been exceeded by none in her time for her integrity, humanity, virtue and good understanding, qualities not usual among women of her worldly condition and quality. Therefore honor and obey her, my dear children, as your mother, and your father's love and delight. Nay, love her, too, for she loved your father with a deep and upright love, choosing him before all her many suitors; and though she be of a delicate constitution and noble spirit, yet she descended to the utmost tenderness and care for you, performing the painfulest acts of service to you in your infancy, as a mother and a nurse too. I charge you, before the

Lord, honor and obey, love and cherish, your dear mother.

Next, betake yourselves to some honest, industrious course of life, and that not of sordid covetousness, but for example and to avoid idleness. And if you change your condition and marry, choose with the knowledge and consent of your mother if living, or of guardians or those that have the charge of you. Mind neither beauty nor riches, but the fear of the Lord and a sweet and amiable disposition, such as you can love above all this world, and that may make your habitations pleasant and desirable to you. And, being married, be tender, affectionate, patient and meek. Be sure to live within compass; borrow not, neither be beholden to any. Ruin not yourself by kindness to others, for that exceeds the due bounds of friendship; neither will a true friend expect it. Small matters I heed not.

TO HIS ELDER BOYS.

And, as for you, who are likely to be concerned in the government of Pennsylvania, I do charge you before the Lord God and his holy angels that you be lowly, diligent and tender, fearing God, loving the people and hating covetousness. Let justice have its impartial course, and the law free passage. Though to your loss, protect no man against it; for you are not above the law, but the law above you. Live, therefore, the lives yourselves you would have the people live, and then you have right and boldness to punish the transgressor. Keep upon the square, for God sees you; therefore do your duty, and be sure you see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears. Entertain no lurchers; cherish no informers for gain or revenge; use no tricks; fly to

no devices to support or cover injustice; but let your hearts be upright before the Lord, trusting in him above the contrivances of men, and none shall be able to hurt or supplant.

Finally, my children, love one another with a true endeared love, and your dear relations on both sides, and take care to preserve tender affection in your children to each other, often marrying within themselves, so as to be without the bounds forbidden in God's law, that so they may not, like the forgetting unnatural world, grow out of kindred and as cold as strangers, but, as becomes a truly natural and Christian stock, you, and yours after you, may live in the pure and fervent love of God toward one another, as becometh brethren in the spiritual and natural relation.

So farewell to my thrice dearly beloved wife and children!

Yours, as God pleaseth, in that in which no waters can quench, no time forget nor distance wear away, but remains for ever. WILLIAM PENN.

WORMINGHURST, Fourth of Sixth Month, 1682.

dependent and led captain. It gives your inferiors just but troublesome and improper claims of equality. A joker is near akin to a buffoon, and neither of them is the least related to wit. Whoever is admitted or sought for in company upon any other account than that of his merit and manners is never respected there, but only made use of. We will have such a one, for he sings prettily; we will invite such a one to a ball, for he dances well; we will have such a one at supper, for he is always joking and laughing; we will ask another, because he plays deep at all games or because he can drink a great deal. These are all vilifying distinctions, mortifying preferences, and exclude all ideas of esteem and regard. Whoever is had, as it is called, in company for the sake of any one thing singly, is singly that thing, and will never be considered in any other light, consequently never respected, let his merits be what they may.

PHILIP DORMER STANHOPE (Earl of Chesterfield).

IT

SELF-ESTIMATE.

FROM THE GERMAN OF GOETHE.

is right that a man, when he first enters on life, should think highly of himself, should determine to attain many eminent distinctions and endeavor to make all things possible; but when his education has advanced to a certain point, it is advantageous for him that he learn to lose himself among a mass of men-that he learn, for the sake of others, to forget himself in an activity prescribed by duty. It is then that he first becomes acquainted with himself, for it is conduct alone that compares us with others.

Translation of JOHN STUART BLACKIE.