170 DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED

~ an English clergyman who lives in America,
and entitled, “Briars and Berries.” The
moral of the tale is, that where there is any-
thing good, there we shall find a mixture of
evil ; that even the,rose is allied to the thorn ;
that “ briars will be where berries grow.”

*T was on a cloudy, gloomy day,
(If rightly I the date remember— ,
For certainly I cannot say,) —
About the middle of September,
When I, astride my,pacing gray,
Was plodding on my weary way,
To spend the night and preach the word
To people who had scarcely heard
The gospel; or, to say the least,
Had never viewed it as a feast

Of fat things full of marrow.

In sadness as I rode along

And crossed the silver Uuadilla,
The robin sang a plaintive song,
And faintly .drooped the fading lily ;
The smoky sky, no longer blue,
Assumed a dim and dusky gray ;
And autumn, o’er my feelings threw
The colouring of its own decay;
And filled my heart with sorrow.