—GEORGE HENRY BOKER.

I see Thee in the distant blue,

But in the violet’s dell of dew,

Behold, I breathe and touch Thee, too.

—JOHN B. TABB.

Spring sat dejected in a sheltered nook

And sighed because of the long-lingering snow,

And prayed that warm, life-giving winds might blow;

When at her feet there grew, with trembling look,

A violet that whispered: “I forsook