In the tint of her face

And the turn of her form,

Showing never a trace

Of life's struggle or storm,
In the innocence veiling her eyes
The proof of her maidenhood lies.

But the maidenly fancies that daintily play
From her heart to her eyes and her lips,
To a welcoming haven they bear her away
As the sails do the outgoing ships.

More sweet than the olive-leaf joyfully carried by
Noah's unchangeable dove.

They tell of the rise of the land that is lit by the wonderful passion of love.

Came a guest when the soul of the summer was glistening

Stayed when the birds of the summer had flown; At the door of her heart he stood knocking and listening,

Craving admittance with music and moan.

Ah! the mischievous god,

With his weeping and mirth,

Blighting lives at a nod,

Bringing heaven to earth

He prevailed, and she opened her heart,
And he entered, alone and apart;

But an image he modeled from passionate life,
And he placed it within on a throne,

And she worshiped and crowned it as maiden and wife,

Till its soul was enwrapped with her own; Till her heart was fulfilled with the radiant passion that's born in the kingdom aboveHumanity's glory, the bountiful, beautiful, wonderful passion of love.

-Kate Field's Washington.

HOMER GREENE,

MAN.

I was born as free as the silvery light
That laughs in a southern fountain;
Free as the sea-fed bird that nests

On a Scandinavian mountain;
Free as the wind that mocks at the sway
And pinioning clasp of another;

Yet in the slave they scourged to-day
I saw, and knew-my brother!
Vested in purple I sat apart,

But the chord that smote him bruised me;
I closed my ears, but the sob that broke
From his savage breast accused me;
No phrase of reasoning judgment just
The plaint of my soul could smother,
A creature vile, abased to the dust,
I knew him still--my brother.

And the autumn day that had smiled so fair Seemed suddenly overclouded;

A gloom, more dreadful than Nature owns, My human mind enshrouded;

I thought of the power benign that made And bound men one to the other,

And I felt in my brother's fear afraid, And ashamed in the shame of my brother. FLORENCE EARLE COATES.

-The Century, June, 1890.

DISCIPLINE.

THE Soul that would in beauty bloom,
Some sorrow must endure.

It is the thorn which guards the bud,
That makes the rose more sure.
MARY A. MASON.

-For THE MAGAZINE OF POETRY.

LIFE.

LIFE's a panorama shifting, shifting,
(Prelude) Blackness lapsing into gray,
Grayness, fading, fading, dies away.
Rosy morn with cloudlets drifting, drifting,
Through which sunbeams softly sifting, sifting,
Glint until the zenith of the day.

When, lo! A thunder-bolt! A flash! Oh, stay!
Too late! A heart is rent! (The curtain's lifting)
How changed the scene! And e'en while gazing, we
Scarce note the change, 'tis done so dexterously.
Behold! A sweet submissive peaceful haze,
So like the shortening Indian summer days,
And now the end! And if the life be true,
A bank of glory shows the sunset through.
MRS. B. C. RUDE.

-For THE MAGAZINE OF POETRY.

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NOTES.

LANIER. "The Marshes of Glynn" was Lanier's most ambitious poem, and one which he intended to follow with a series of "Hymns to the Marshes," which he left incomplete.

NOEL. The meters of "Suspiria" and "Thalatta" were suggested to me by the sounds of the sea; that of "Suspiria" is of course a modification of the hexameter, with rhyme in the alternate lines. To my ear it appears that the hexameter ought not to be written with two single words in the last (trochaic) foot, but that in this particular, at least, the structure of the verse in its native sources should be respected.-R. N.

SMITH. The noted poet, Ferdinand Freiligrath, who died in Germany a few years ago, was in his later days reduced almost to penury by the failure

a German banking house. As soon as it became known that he was in need, subscriptions were sent to him from the German people from all parts of the world, amounting to the sum of sixty thousand thalers-a striking illustration of the beautiful sentiment:

"For doth not song

To the whole world belong?

Wherever smiles may light or tears may fall, A heritage to all?"

-M. P. S.

ALDEN. The worship of the Madonna, or Mater Dolorosa-" Our Lady of Sorrow"-is not confined to the Roman Catholic faith; it was an important feature in all the ancient pagan systems of religion, even the most primitive. In the Sacred Mysteries of Egypt and of Greece her worship was the distinctive and prominent element. In the latter her name was Achtheia, or Sorrow. Under the name of Demeter, by which she was generally known among the Greeks, she, like the Egyptian Isis, typifying the Earth, was represented as sympathizing with the sorrowing children of Earth, both as a bountiful mother, bestowing upon them her fruits and golden harvests, and in her more gloomy aspects-as in autumnal decay, in tempests, and wintry desolation-as sighing over human frailty, and over the wintry deserts of the human heart. The worship connected with this tradition was vague and symbolical, having no well-defined doctrine as to sin, salvation, or a future life. Day and Night, Summer and Winter, Birth and Death, as shown in Nature, were seized upon as symbols of vaguely-understood truths.

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