The joy of this full time by hint of war,

Or agonize ourselves with distant fears,—

A truce to these misgivings! With such store

Of love we’ll front our happiness, that years

Will bring us compensations more and more.

I master? nay, a beggar,—see these tears!

John Armstrong.


PARILEE’S DREAM.

“Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?”