To-day had decked their Christmas tree;
Then fare ye home and—sleep?
[A] Note.—“I thank God there is not a drop of Saxon blood in my veins. I am a Dutchman; Boer, if you please.”—Rough-rider Roosevelt, Governor of New York and heir apparent to the Presidency of Us.
MOTHER EGYPT.
Dedicated to England on her invasion of North Africa.
Dark browed, she broods with weary lids
Beside her Sphinx and Pyramids,
With low and never-lifted head.
If she be dead, respect the dead;
If she be weeping, let her weep;