Such simple links of being,—such common things of God’s.

—ELLA M. BAKER.

Merry, ever-merry May!

Made of sunbeams, shade and showers,

Bursting buds and breathing flowers!

Dripping locked and rosy-vested,

Violet slippered, rainbow crested.

—WILLIAM D. GALLAGHER.

There were banks of purple violet,

And arbutus, first whisper of the May.