Perish, 'mid our vain regrets,
Ripening apples, red and green,
On denuded boughs are seen.

Thou hast often God forgot,
But He in mercy changes not.
All the changing stars above,
All unchanging human love,
Each new heart-beat, every breath,
Cherished life, and hateful death,
Tell that God remembereth.

-Isaac Ogden Rankin.

THERE is no day so dark,

But through the murk some ray of hope may

steal,

Some blessed touch from heaven, that we may

feel

If we but choose to mark.

We shut the portals fast

And turn the key, and let no sunshine in ;
Yet the worst despair that comes through sin
God's light shall reach at last.

THERE

Celia Thaxter.

HERE is always the sunshine, only we must do our part, we must move into it.

Clara Louise Burnham.

“WHATEVER the weather may be,” says he,

"Whatever the weather may be,

It's the songs ye sing, and the smiles ye wear,
That's makin' the sun shine everywhere."

UPON the sadness of the sea

The sunset broods regretfully;
From the far lonely spaces slow
Withdraws the wistful afterglow.

So out of life the splendor dies;
So darken all the happy skies;
So gathers twilight, cold and stern;
But overhead the planets burn.

And up the east another day

Shall chase the bitter dark away;

What though our eyes with tears are wet?

The sunrise never failed us yet.

The blush of dawn may yet restore

Our light, and hope, and joy once more;
Sad soul, take comfort, nor forget

That sunrise never failed us yet.

Own, if you can, one of those welcome faces that bring the sunshine to life's shadowed places.

- Nixon Waterman.

BLEST power of sunshine! genial day,
What balm, what life are in thy ray.

-John Milton.