VARIOUS VERSE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIV, Issue 18, 20 July 1907, Page 13

VARIOUS VERSE.

A MEMORY. This is just the weather, a 1 wet May and blowing, All the shining, shimmering leaves tossing low aud high, When my father used to cay; "'Twill bo the great mowing! God's weather's good weatbor, be it wet cr dry.," Bluo wero his eyes and his cheeks were so ruddy, , He was out in all weathers, up and down the farm; With the pleasant smilo and the word for a- wet body: "Sure tho weather's God's weather. Who can tako the harm?" With a happy word he'd silence ail ropininff. While the hay lay wot in field and the cattle died, i When tho raiA rained every day and no sun was shining: "Ah, well, God Is ggod," he'd say, even whilo ho sighed. In the parched summer with the corn not worth saving, Every field bare as your hand, and the beasts to feed, Still he kept his heart up, when other folk wpro raving: . / "God will send the fodder ; 'tis He that kuows tho need." A wet May, a wild May; he used to rise up cheery In tho grey of tho doming for market and for fair. Now ho sleeps the whole year long, though days bo bright, bo dreary, In God's weather that's good weather he sleeps without a caro. Now 'tis just tho weather, a, wild May and weeping. How the blackbird sang and sang "mid the tossing loaves! When my father iised to say: " "Twill bo the great reaping, God send fine weather to carry home the sheavesi" , —Katharine Tynan. Spectator.

TRIOLETS OF A KISS. 1: She offered me a little kiss, But I was shy and scarce would toko. Alas! What pleasures wo may miss! She offered me a little kiss. One of my lifo's regrets is this, When tender recollections wake: She offered me a little kiss, But I was shy and scarce would tako. n. I cannot ask her to repeat Tho offer made so long ago; That gift spontaneously sweet I cannot ask 'hor to repeat. But yet, if wo should eoino day meet, And I remind her, whispering low, -I wonder if she would repeat The offer made to long ago. — Arthur L. Salmon. St. James s Budget. EFFECT OF A GENTLEMAN. A baby watched a ford, whereto A wagtail came for drinking j A blaring bull went wading through; The wagtail showed no shrinking. A etallion splashed his way across, Tho birdie nearly sinking: He gave his plumes a twitch and toss, And held his own, unblinking. Next saw the baby round tho spot A mongrel slowly slinking ; The wagtail gaaed, but faltered not In dip and sip and prinking. A perfect gentleman then nearcd. The wagtail, in a winking, Rose terrified, and disappeared . . . The baby fell a-thinking. — Thomas Hardy. Albany Review.

AT THE TOP OF THE ROAD. "But, Lord," she said, "my shoulders still are strong — I have been used to bear the load so long , "And see, the hill is' passed, and smooth the road." ' "Yet," eaid the Stranger, "yield me now thy load." Gently he took it from her, and she stood Straight-limbed and lithe, in new-found maidenhood, Amid long, sunlit fields; around them sprang A tender breeze, and birds and rivers sang. "My lord," she said, "the land is very fair!" Smiling, he answered: "Was it not so there?" "There?" In her voice a wondering ques. tion lay ; "Was I not always here, then, as to-day?" He turned to her -with strange, deep eyes aflame : "Knowest thou not this kingdom, nor my name?" "Nay," she replied ; "but this I understand — That thou art Lord of Life in this dear land !" "Tea, child," ho murmured, scarce above his breath ; "Lord of the Land, but men have named me Death." — Charles Buxton Goring 1 , M'Olure's Magazine. "The Bushman's Song" — Spirited, but defective in form. "Convolvulus," for example, should not have the accent on the penultimate.

Progress for the current month contains an article on "The Mystery of j Life," the ideas of which are pre-scien- ! title. ft adds one more to tho definitions of "life" which are no definitions; "Life is a chemical process." Yet life, involuntarily and unconsciously, con- N trols chemical processes and makes use of them. On a higher plane it controls them intelligently and voluntarily. It would be as correct to define a helmsman as a ship. An illustrated article on Timaru is a special feature of this issue. /

Night and B&v, the organ of the Barnardo Homes, in its June number, has much to say of the eight thousand children now being cared for. The fortysecond anniversary was observed on the 29th ult., at Barkingside. " The magazine is illustrated with realistic photographs. An article of special interest is that which deals with boarding-out and the remarkable success which has attended this modern method of dealing with the children of poverty. Otter contents include a commendation of the Homes by the Hight Hon. Charles Booth, P. 0., a page of "Somebody's Bairns," an "Interview with a Future Landowner," and some account of the romantic and unusual gifts which feed the children's exchequer.

The Catholic Magazine for June announces the appointment of the late editor, Mr M\Keown, to the position of business manager. "Ridens" contributes a solemn burlesque of the methods of tho Higher Criticism as appliod to "Little Jack Homer." After rummaging through myths from East and West, and making afc efach stage tho usual allowances for elisions, intrusions, and oral corruptions, he reduces tho nursery rhyme to 'A big man named Robinson stood in the middle of the road and whistled for a cab." Stories, verse, scientific notes, miscellanies, and illustrations make up a very readable number.

No. 6 or 'Tho Truth on the Congo Free State" has reached us from Brussels. It is published by a political federation. As compared with earlier issues, its tone is le«s argumentative and moro defiant. Outrage and mutilations are not denied, but wo aro told that they are not actually inflicted by tho white men! Herod, it may be remembered, did not personally cut o? tho head of ; John the Baptist,.