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IN EMBER DAYS.

By Adelaide C. Waldron.

Softly there sounds above the roar

Of the wide world's deafening din,

An echo of song from a far-off time,

Deeper and sweeter than poet's rhyme,

Whose tidings of joy and whose message sublime,

"Heaven's peace on earth, and good-will to mankind,"

Fill me with force; I yet will find