Go hide your gray, diminished head

Within your mother's feather bed,

And ne'er through life may it be said

You have a wife or baby!


BE OF GOOD CHEER: IT IS I.

BY R. T. CONRAD.

"But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it had been a spirit, and cried out. For they all saw him and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid."—Mark vi. 49, 50.

They toiled—for night was round their bark;

The fierce winds tossed the white sea spray: