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ACADIENSIS.
troubled waters, an act more suggestive of valor than discretion.
How long ago all this seems! As the years roll by, gradually shrouding such youthful adventures in an almost mythical haze, we feel the force of Virgil's well known line, "Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."
Joseph Whitman Bailey.
The Glory of God.
The moon have I for shallop; and the starsMy far-off beacons by the which I steerOn sapphire sea past changeful isles and barsThat hoist bright silver banners as I nearTheir faery shores. To me the planets singOf Art and Arms, of Glory and of Years;And Earth, the mother unto whom I cling,Sighs her deep undertone of pain and tears.And so my boundless vesper dreams are sweptWith Star-lanced ether and through veiled eyesAnd lids that harbored many tears unweptI feel, what no man sees or else he dies!