in The Century.

1 a LiTEr.AE" :u?vi:sity.

A lad)' occupied a whole yen in i ciucb­

: in fir and luting the f illnwim; iliirt)'­

'eijUt lin s from Kuli -'.i ami American

; poems. The wliol-; reads almost u it'

1 it had been written at one time- aud by

one author :

l.in..

1 1. Why all this toil f.u the ti inniphs of

' an hour ''

2. Life's short sunituer man is but a

llower;

' !. iiy turns we ealch the fata! breath

and die.

! 4. The cradle and the Imub, alas! so

1 nig''.

5. To be is better lar than imt to be

1 ti. Though all man's lile may seem a

tragedy;

' . Hut light cares speak when nighty

, grief is dumb

. S. The" bottom is but shallow whence

' they come.

Your fate is but the common late of

all: