So life keeps coming and going.

—ALICE CARY.

Dear chance it were in some rough wood-god’s lair

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To sink o’erdrowsed, and dream that wild-flowers blew

Around my head and feet silently there,

Till spring’s glad choir adown the valley pealed

And violets trembled in the morning dew.

—EDWARD DOWDEN.

The sunbeams kiss askant the sombre hill,