Those temple rites, not meet to be profaned,
Still hast thou taught with sacerdotal pride;
Still fed the fire, still kept the robe unstained,
And by the altar died!

Owen Seaman.

Sidera Cadentia

HEN one of the old, little stars doth fall from its place,

W

The eye,

Glimpsing aloft must sadden to see that its

space

In the sky

Is darker, lacking a spot of its ancient,' shimmering

grace,

And sadder, a little, for loss of the glimmer on high.

Very remote, a glitter, a mote far away, is your star, But its glint being gone from the place where it shone The night's somewhat grimmer and something is gone Out of the comforting quiet of things as they are.

A shock,

A change in the beat of the clock;

And the ultimate change that we fear feels a little less Ford Madox Hueffer.

far.

IX. The Call to Serve

!

"I too will something make

And joy in the making;
Although to-morrow it seem
Like the empty words of a dream
Remembered on waking."

The Tie of Brotherhood

O sing the nation's song or do the deed
That crowns with richer light the motherland,
Or lend her strength of arm in hour of need
When fangs of foes shine fierce on every
hand,

Is joy to him whose joy is working well

Is goal and guerdon too, though never fame
Should find a thrill of music in his name;

Yea, goal and guerdon too, though Scorn should aim
Her arrows at his soul's high citadel.

But if the fates withhold the joy from me
To do the deed that widens England's day,
Or join that song of Freedom's jubilee
Begun when England started on her way-
Withhold from me the hero's glorious power
To strike with song or sword for her, the mother,
And give that sacred guerdon to another,

Him will I hail as my more noble brother-
Him will I love for his diviner dower.

Theodore Watts-Dunton.

The True Patriotism

HE ever-lustrous name of patriot

To no man be denied because he saw
Where in his country's wholeness lay the
flaw,

Where, on her whiteness, the unseemly blot.
England! thy loyal sons condemn thee.-What!
Shall we be meek who from thine own breasts draw