"WHEN SHALL WE THREE MEET AGAIN?"

'HEN shall we three meet again?

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When shall we three meet again?
Oft shall glowing hope expire,
Oft shall wearied love retire,
Oft shall death and sorrow reign,
Ere we three shall meet again.

Though in distant lands we sigh,
Parched beneath a hostile sky,
Though the deep between us rolls,
Friendship shall unite our souls;
Still in Fancy's rich domain,
Oft shall we three meet again.

When the dreams of life are fled,
When its wasted lamps are dead,
When, in cold oblivion's shade,
Beauty, power, and fame are laid,
Where immortal spirits reign,
There shall we three meet again.

ANONYMOUS

THE LONG AGO.
(Extract.)

N that deep-retiring shore

Frequent pearls of beauty lie,.
Where the passion-waves of yore
Fiercely beat and mounted high:
Sorrows that are sorrows still

Lose the bitter taste of woe;
Nothing's altogether ill

In the griefs of Long-ago.

Tombs where lonely love repines,
Ghastly tenements of tears,
Wear the look of happy shrines

Through the golden mist of years:
Death, to those who trust in good,
Vindicates his hardest blow;

Oh, listen, heart! The flower may lose its Oh! we would not, if we could, glory.

Beneath the touch of frost, but does not die. In spring it will repeat the old, sweet story Of God's dear by-and by.

In heaven, if never here, the hopes we cher

ish,

The flowers of human lives we count as lost, Will live again. Such beauty cannot perish, And heaven has no frost.

ANONYMOUS.

Wake the sleep of Long-ago!

Though the doom of swift decay

Shocks the soul where life is strong,
Though for frailer hearts the day
Lingers sad and overlong-
Still the weight will find a leaven,
Still the spoiler's hand is slow,
While the future has its heaven,
And the past its Long-ago.

LORD HOUGHTON,