Earth’s shores float back as craft that cruising sails;

Each blessed gift that hourly from us flies,

God will rain down albeit in other guise;—

And e’en the very dew-drop noon exhales

May find again the self-same rose at eve.

Mary W. Gale.

TWILIGHT VISIONS.

“At evening time there shall be light.”

—Zech. xiv., 7.

The day’s work done, I cast my pen aside