Two lives bound fast in one with golden ease;

Two graves, grass green, beside a gray church-tower,

Wash'd with still rains and daisy-blossomed;

Two children in one hamlet born and bred;

So runs the round of life from hour to hour.

A. TENNYSON.


CIRCUMSTANCE.

(After Tennyson).

TWO children on Twelfth Night, all mirth and laughter,