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It -shone upon a genial mind, and lo ! its light became
A itimp of liib, d boa con ray, a monitory flame.
The thought was .small, its issue great, a watchnrc on the lull;
It sheds its rj.diance far ad own. and cheers the valSey s'dih

A liiiiii'jkiii man amid a crowd that thronged the daily mart
Let fall a word of hops a nr’ love, unstudied, from tilt heart
A whisper on the tumult thrown,— ^ transitory breath,—
It raised a brother from the dust, it saved a soul ft am centb ;
O germ ! O fount! O ivord of love! O thought at random co st!
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Ye were but lit Lie at the flrsi but mighty at the last.
C i-ia r l e s M ac K a y .

NELLIE ’ 3 PRAYER.
I T'S a month to-day educe they brought me
The news of my carl m g’s death ;
1 knew what it meant v. iicn the neighbors
Whispered under their breath ;
And one good motherly creature,
Seeing my N dl nt play,
Stooped down, with her eyelids streaming,
And kissed her and turned <iway,

1 knc’.v that my Nell was an osphan
And I w-tja widowed wife,
T1 lal a so I die: far Queen anci country
Had bravely given his life;
That out. oa the held of battle,
Under the far-off sides,
He h;-.d thought of his absent; dear ones
With the iiim of Jeadi on his eyes.

Tt was there in the Overling paper.
His name wn$ am ring 'he dead— -