THE GIRL'S OWN PAPER

Vol. XX.—No. 997.]

FEBRUARY 4, 1899.

[Price One Penny.

[Transcriber's Note: This Table of Contents was not present in the original.]

[A BRIDAL SONG.]
[“OUR HERO.”]
[A RAMBLE ABOUT CHILDHOOD.]
[ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.]
[LINNÆA;]
[THE PRINCESS ELIZABETH: AUNT OF THE QUEEN.]
[VARIETIES.]
[MISCHIEVOUS JACK.]
[NEW DRIED FRUITS.]
[QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.]
[ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.]

[A BRIDAL SONG.]

“GOD SPEED THEE!”

Oh, happy bride!
Heaven’s sunlight wraps thee in a golden gleam,
And in thine eyes the light of love supreme,
And in thy heart the dawning of a dream,
And what beside!

Hopes reaching wide,
Out into the new life unbegun,
Into the untrodden ways thy feet may run
And the dim future only known by One—
The One Who died.

And a sweet pride
That thou art chosen the whole world above,
And girt about with mightiness of love,
Which waits to cherish thee as tend’rest dove
Till death divide.

And there abide
In thy full heart most sweet-sad memories
Of one who smiles on thee from out the skies,
Thy best belovèd, now in Paradise,
Thy earliest guide;

At whose dear side
Thy girlhood’s opening flower sweetly grew,
Till death transplanted her into the blue;
There to watch over thee with love more true
And purified.

In the untried
And varying life which waits thee, rosy-hued,
God speed thee! and give daily grace renewed,
And bless with all His large beatitude
Thy marriage-tide.

Though thou be tried
And troubled oftentimes in this new life,
Christ wall be with thee through the calm and strife,
Help thee to beautify the name of wife,
Oh, happy bride!

[“OUR HERO.”]

A TALE OF THE FRANCO-ENGLISH WAR NINETY YEARS AGO.

By AGNES GIBERNE, Author of “Sun, Moon and Stars,” “The Girl at the Dower House,” etc.