Their arms reached toward the mountain wall.
ROSALIE KERCHEVAL.
APRIL 12.
The desert calls to him who has once felt its strange attraction, calls and compels him to return, as the sea compels the sailor to forsake the land. He who has once felt its power can never free himself from the haunting charm of the desert.
GEORGE HAMILTON FITCH,
in Palm Springs, Land of Sunshine Magazine.
IN SANCTUARY.
The wind broke open a rose's heart
And scattered her petals far apart.