Pure as a tone and brilliant as a star.

Even through the shadows on life’s desert lawn

Hills of the future world he sees afar

In morning rays that beam not here below.

Thus doth the dweller in the realm of snow

Through his long night perceive the distant dawn.


HARRY CAVENDISH.

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BY THE AUTHOR OF “CRUISING IN THE LAST WAR,” “THE REEFER OF ’76,” ETC. ETC.