CHARADE.

Darker and darker still, the slow hours creeping,

Bring to my first the inexorable gloom;

Silent and soft, the tender skies are weeping

For all the beauty they no more illume.

Stay not. O wand'rer, by the hurrying river,

Nor in the whispering wood, nor where above

Rises the perilous crag. My second ever,

With added final, welcomes all who rove.