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"Thewaves/3 he said, "are full of glee.
Then yet there may be some for me.”

The sunbeam next did not disdain
A window Low and sm all;
It entered at the cottage pane.
And danced upon the wall,
A pale young face looked up to meet
The radiance she had watched to greet.

So up and down, and to and fro,
The sunbeam glanced about;
And never door was shut, I kiioWj
To keep the stranger out.
But lo ! where’er St touched the earth
Jt seemed to wake up jov and mirth.

I can not tell the history
Of all that it could d o ;
But this 1 tell, that you may try
To be a sunbeam too—
By little smiles and deeds of love,
Which cheer like sunshine from above.

“ 1 WOULD IF I COULD.’*
T W OULD if 1 could/' though much it’s hi use,
\ Is but a mistaken and sluggish excuse;
And many a person who could if ho would,
Is often heard saying, (< 1 would if I could.”

1f Come, John/5 said a school-boy, “ now do not ref;iso—■=
Come, solve me this problem ; you can if you choose/'
But John at that moment was not in the mood,
And yawningly answered, “ I would if I could.”