SUNDAY AND MONDAY.

"As Tommy Snooks and Bessy Brooks
Were walking out one Sunday,

Says Tommy Snooks to Bessy Brooks,
To-morrow will be Monday."

No doubt you are smiling at such a remark, And thinking poor Snooks but a pitiful

spark;

But the words have a meaning, worth looking for, too,

As I'll presently try and demonstrate for

you.

'Twas a pity, indeed, in that moment of

leisure,

To dampen poor Bessy's hebdomadal pleas

ure,

Suggesting that close on the beautiful Sun

day

Must come all the common-place horrors of Monday;

That he to his toiling, and she to her

tub,

Must turn, and take up with another week's

rub;

Yet a truth for us all, since the shade of

the real

Follows fast on the track of each sunny

ideal.

And our feet, with all patience, must traverse them still,

Reaching forward to blessing, through bearing of ill.

Yet for Snooks and his Bessy,- for me

Comes a Saturday night when the wage will be due;

And we'll say to each other, in ecstasy,

one day,

"To-morrow-the endless to-morrow - is

Sunday!"

CONCLUSION.

DOUBTLESS I might go on to quote,
With added paraphrase and note,
Enough of rhymes to fill a scroll,
That, bundled up, should be a roll
As bulky as a broad-brimmed hat;
But "verbum sapienti sat!"

Suffice it to have struck the vein,

And shown some specimens of ore;

If any seek for further gain,

The mine still holds abundance more.

A mental pickaxe and a biggin

Are all you need to go to diggin',

For, as the Swedish seer contends,

All things comprise an inner sense;
There's nothing we can write or say,
In howsoever simple way,

But seems a body, built to hide

The soul, that straightway is supplied;
And many a fool, and prophet too,
Hath spoken wiser than he knew.

One parting word, and I am gone :
If I've prevailed to make you see
These things as they appear to me,
Then have I proved my Goose a Swan;
And I, descended of her line,

And bearing yet the ancient name,

May, for this ancestress of mine,

Claim place upon the page of fame ; — That not a bard of Saxon tongue

More true to nature ever sung;