THE DISCIPLE

A Monthly Magazine of Christian Literature

EDITED BY

B. J. RADFORD
JESSIE H. BROWN

VOL. III. JANUARY, 1886. No. I.

Cincinnati

Standard Publishing Company

Covington, Ky.

Guide Printing & Publishing Co.

From out the loins of Time there spring,
Minerva-like, the Years that bring
The train of Seasons. Children, they,
Who serve in turn then speed away
And with the dead Year sleep, in rest
From labors that the World have blest.

And

First Winter came, with all his wealth,
To paint the glowing cheek of health,
grow his magic forests fair
On window-pane and crystalled air.
Abroad his snowy mantle fell,
Like charity, to guard the cell
The husbandman had left to earth
In harvest hope.

Then broke the mirth

Of garland-covered Spring in song,
And woke sweet echoes, trembling long
In every heart.
heart. What Hope had sown
Spring reared in many a blossom blown
To fragrance rare, till everywhere
Joy missions sped on wings of air,
And universal Eden prest

From out the grave of Winter's rest.

Next fervent Summer's scepter-wand

Wrought magic change on every hand,