“Bright leaves and flowers from Vernon’s bowers,

Ye call to mind home memories sweet,”—

Listening: By Lieutenant E. C. McCarthy: (Sunny.)

“Under the evening shadows,

Ere the long day was done,”—

A Litany for 1861: By Kentucky. (S. O. S.)

“O God, our God, in this our hour of dark

And bitter dread, we flee to Thee.”—

Little Footsteps: By Mary J. Upshur of Norfolk, Va. (E. V. M.)

“I sit in the summer moonlight,