. The century illustrated monthly magazine . Are we, forsooth, so helpless, weThat vanquish air, and earth, and sea ?The sun shines yonder; somewhere glowsThe old first hope, bright as it rose,The hope whose accent highShall brand this whining lie. The seers, the prophets, poets — theySee yet the good gold in the day :They of his line that conquered SaulCan crowd small cowards to the wall,They that were Athens mightCan put pale wraiths to flight. Poets, still red at heart, arise,Sing back the blue into the skies,Sing back the green into the grass,And bid these skulking phantoms passYou, dauntl
. The century illustrated monthly magazine . Are we, forsooth, so helpless, weThat vanquish air, and earth, and sea ?The sun shines yonder; somewhere glowsThe old first hope, bright as it rose,The hope whose accent highShall brand this whining lie. The seers, the prophets, poets — theySee yet the good gold in the day :They of his line that conquered SaulCan crowd small cowards to the wall,They that were Athens mightCan put pale wraiths to flight. Poets, still red at heart, arise,Sing back the blue into the skies,Sing back the green into the grass,And bid these skulking phantoms passYou, dauntless sons of song,Can blast this dastard wrong. Once more, blest messengers, declare That love still lives, that life is fair; Say knowledge knows not, trust is all, And crush these wise which writhe and crawl; Wake, wake, your strains of fire, God s for us — strike the lyre. John Vance Cheney Vol. XXXIX. THE -MERRY CHANTER. BY FRANK R. STOCKTON, Author of The Lady, or the Tigei MY CAREER IS ENDED. Rudder Grange, The Hundredth Man, CAPTAIN TIMON MUCHER. OR two years Doris and Ihad been engaged to bemarried. The first of theseyears appeared to us aboutas long as any ordinary year,but the second seemed tostretch itself out to the lengthof fifteen or even eighteenmonths. There had beenmany delays and disappoint-ments in that year. We were both youngenough to wait, and bothold enough to know weought to wait; and sowe waited. But, as wefrequently admitted toourselves, there was nothing particularly jollyin this condition of things. Every youngman should have sufficient respect for him-self to make him hesitate before enteringinto a matrimonial alliance in which he wouldhave to be supported by his wife. This wouldhave been the case had Doris and I marriedwithin those two years. I am by profession an analyzer of lava. Hav-ing been from my boyhood an enthusiasticstudent of mineralogy and geology, I graduallybecame convinced that there was no reasonwhy precious metals and preci
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