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Throbs ‘neath Ins coat, and that every one
Of flic clover blossoms lit the field
Is breathing to liim an old love-song,
And that everv bad a joy ran vield.
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So the maiden there by :;ho broken wall
Takes up and icings the old time call,
“ Ho boss ! ho boss ■ ho boss ! ”

Once more Sam stands by the meadow bars
With his wife beside him, and her arms
Enfold a dear form, whose baby prate
Is sweeter to them than the brook's gay song
A.l: it flows away at the foot of the hill.
Happy they wait, for they know ere long
The cows will come from the meadow side.
S ;'j Sam caresses his little son,
W hile t he y o u n g wife 1 oohs w :tn \c-y and pride;
And a piping voice o'er the old stone wall
Just breathes in baby notea the call,
" Ho boss ! ho boss ! ho boss [ "
A lbert H ardy.

A TRIBUTE TO COLUMBUS.

B E H IN D him lay the gray Azores,
Behind the gates of Hercules;
Before him not the ghost of shores,
Before him only shoreless seas,
The good mate said, ir Now must we pray,
For lo ! the very stars are gone.
Brave Adm’rai, speak j what shall I sa y ?"
'£ Why say, Sail on ! sail on ! and on ! ”

‘■My men grew mutinous day by day;
My men grew ghastly, wan and weak,"