Elegiac.

And now this picture bright appears By Mem ' ry ' s magic power ; Tho' years have flown , the scene I see , And perfect to this hour . * * * * * Again I look upon her face

, Where health ancl beauty glowed , And see the sweetest , purest grace On woman e'er bestowed . But eyes are dim ancl cheeks are pale , I see the sickness there , And trace the struggles of a life

Of overwearing care . I Avatch and pray , my fears increase , In vain is all our aid ; The Time hath come , her end is near , " Fear not , " the Lord hath said . All through her life maternal love ,

Unchanging , firm , and true , With hallowed power incessantly Our hearts unto her drew . Her words were kind , her looks serene , Her burden bravely borne ; Her Faith and Hope in Christ were placed , A Christian ' s death we mourn .

I gaze upon her still dear face—Its calm solemnity Is deepened by a shade—a sign—Of Life ' s eternity ! The Living Soul hath only gone A little while before

, And waiteth for the loved ones left , And Resteth evermore . JOHN SAFFERY , J . D . De Shurland Lodge , No . 1089 .

An Old, Old Story.

AN OLD , OLD STORY .

CHAPTER IX . " Beware young man , you Know not what you do !'' OLD P ;_ AT . MODERN POEM . MR . MAINWARING Avent to bed full of Valorous resolutions , ancl Avoke . up Avith the same manly determination . Tliey say you can always discover ivhen a man is

about to propose , by that mingled air of self-sacrifice and heroism which the victim assumes for the occasion , and Avhich sometimes makes him , if but for a few passing moments of life , resemble Marcus Curtius , of saltatory memory . After his breakfast , Avhich ho oat for once Avith a sort of grim

determination unusual to him , ancl as an act of mechanical necessity , he ivalked on Avith Dan to the Cedars . Dogs are very sympathetic Avith man , Why was it that on this peculiar occasion , though his master Avas distrait and silentthat Dan ' s Avhole

, demeanour Avas expressive of exuberant gratification ? Admitted by Mr . Walters , Avhen he reached that well-known and hospitable mansion , AVIIO also seemed equally inspired Avith the knoivledge of something or other—Avhich servants often learn and

betray—Mr . Mainwaring , though Dan hacl to Avait outside , was soon in the presence of Miss Margerison . Lucy hacl gone off , it seemed , to pay a morning visit to the Monckton young ladies , probably to be out of the Avay , and Miss Margerison Avas all alone , and sitting in her straight-backed chair doing crochet Avork . She ivas , as I have before pointed out , a great disciplinarian ,

a stickler for old usages and old habits , and one thing she particularly disliked , she said , to see young Avomen , and for the matter of that , young men , lolling about in arm chairs , and so she always sat herself in a straight-backed old-fashioned chair , which certainly Avas not comfortable

to look at . She Avas fond of remarking , that this sitting in IOAV arm-chairs made the young ladies ' ' Aveak in the back , " and as for the young men , they "lounged about like stable-boys , " ancl so she loudly declared that " their manners Avere A ery

bad , and their dress most detestable !" Dear good old soul ! like so many of our older generation Ave all have known , she never seemed to think that once she hacl been young , and gay , ancl "frisky" herself , ( as Colonel Mackintosh ivas fond of

remarking ) , or that the Avorld had moved on at all—but she apipearcd ahvays to live , as some still do , amid people of a different time ancl race even . Ancl yet Avhy blame those kind old souls , so amusing amid their intolerance and fierce indignation at change and novelty _ You ancl I , gentle reader , have seen many of them in the flesh , face to face , and despite their