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If we knew the ernes and trials,
Knew the effort all in vain,
And the bitter disappointment,
Understood the loss and gain,
Would the grim, external roughness
Seem, I wonder, just the same?
Should we help, where now we hinder?
Should wre pity where we blame?

A h ! We judge each other harshly,
Kn owing n o■: 1 iie’s hiriden fnrce;
Knowing not the fount of action
Is less turbid at its source.
Seeing not amid the evil
Ail the golden grains of good j
Oh ! W e’d love each other better*
If we only understood.

SM ALL BEGINNINGS.

7T T R A V E L E R on a dusty road strewed acorns on the lea4
I V And one took root and sprouted up and grew into a trf\_.
Love sought its- shade at evening time, to breathe its early vows.
And age wra^ pleased in heats of noon to bask beneath its boughs;
The dormouse loved its dangling twigs, the birds sweet music bore;
It stood a glory in its place, a blessing evermore,

A little spring had lost its way amid the grass and fen',
A pas-iing stranger scooped a well where weary men might turn ;
f ie walled it. in, and hung with care a ladle at tke brink;
He thought not: of the deed Jie did, but judged that toil might drink,
lie passed again, and lo ! the well, by summers never dried.
Had cooled ten thousand parching tongues, and saved a life beside.
A dreamer dropped a random thought ; 'Uvas old and yet 'twas new.
A simple fancy of the brain, but strong in being true.