Watches the oleander lancers pass,

And the bright flashing of the oriole notes.

Hushed are the senses with the drone of bees

And the far glimmer of the mid-day heat;

Dreams stealing o'er one like the incoming seas,

Soft as the rustling zephyrs in the wheat;

While on the breeze is borne the call of Love

To Love, dear Love, of Majel, the wild dove.

CHARLES ELMER JENNEY,
in Western Field, Dec., 1905.