FRAGMENT.

I hear Hope singing, sweetly singing,
Softly in an under-tone,

And singing as if God had taught her,
"It is better farther on."

Still farther on! Oh, how much farther? Count the milestones one by one.

No! no counting, only trusting "It is better farther on!"

THE END.

* The poems by the authors whose names are starred are reprinted

by the courtesy of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin, & Co.

Cheerfulness Taught by Reason
From "My Doves "

BROWNING, ROBERT

Fragment-Song

BRYANT, WILLIAM C.

A Forest Hymn .
The Yellow Violet
To a Waterfowl

March.

The Constellations

* BURLEIGH, WILLIAM H.

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