And through each crisis great of all known time,
’Tis God in love; ’tis music full sublime.
At last the Lamb and Lion in song shall join;
The Child and Wolf eternal riches coin;
The Night shall sing to Day, and Day to Him,
Who receives the plaudits of the seraphim.
THE STONE CROSSES
AND THE FAIRIES
(In Patrick County, Virginia, little stone crosses have been found and are yet obtainable. Jewelers of Roanoke and Martinsville, Va., assure inquirers that the Virginia “Fairy” or “Lucky” stones, discovered nowhere else in the world, have been a puzzle to scientists, and are being worn by some of the crowned heads of Europe. A bulletin of the U. S. Geological Survey speaks of them as “the most curious mineral found in the United States,” and calls them Staurolite or Fairy Stones.)
In Virginia’s historic hills around a hallowed spot,