KEPT IN FOR STUDY.

It must be done before I go! To-morrow's lesson's harder still.— What's that! the boys are balling snow. Oh, dear! I wonder if I ever will, Think out this sum, in time for tea!

press on! surmount the rocky steeps; Climb boldly o'er the torrent's arch; He fails alone who feebly creeps; He wins who dares the hero's march.
Be thou a hero! let thy might Tramp on eternal snows its way, And through the ebon walls of night, Hew down a passage unto day.