And this Nightingale, kept by one Shear.”

Bret Harte.

——:o:——

What is in a Name.
(From “Ravings,” by E. A. Poet.)

The autumn upon us was rushing,

The parks were deserted and lone—

The streets were unpeopled and lone;

My foot through the sere leaves was brushing,

That over the pathway were strown—

By the wind in its wanderings strown.