stone cross upon the grave, that its shadow might lie ever over him as a testimony of his salvation through Him who had contended for him against the adversary.

And Father Basil returned to his convent in the Rhine Valley, and told Father Bruno that the Holy One had accomplished his work and taken his task from him, and he was come back to die. And he died in peace.

Victoria

et per victoriam vito

At Last.

T last we meet again!

And utter no reproaches for the past-
No need to tell him all my hidden pain,
For he knows all—at last!

Oh healing touch!—once more,

I take in mine the hand he cannot give,The fixed sweetness of that smile before, What bitterness can live?

Oh lips thus sealed for aye!

I give the holy kiss ye cannot takeDeath met returning love upon the way, And the once broken bond, renewed to-day,

Doth thus eternal make.

ΑΕΙ

ISA CRAIG.

Far-off Sunshine.

BY THE AUTHOR OF "JOHN HALIFAX, GENTLEMAN."

SHROUD-LIKE mist creeps o'er the purple

hills,

And blots out, line by line, their mystic bound:
The wheat lies prostrate on the sodden ground,
The swollen water-course the valley fills.

Yet while this gloom our inmost being chills,
On yonder heights we trace the glimmer plain
Of that delicious "shining after rain; "-
Hard sight!-More hard for him who sows and tills;
Who, while his empty barns still hopeless wait,
Hears of glad harvests in another land;
Yet watches, passively, these clouds of fate,
Slow moved with equal but invisible Hand.-
Ah, blessed he, whose heart from envy sealed,
Can "see the sun shine on his neighbour's field."