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TRUE GLORY.

To whom is glory justly due?

To those who pride and hate subdue;

Who, 'mid the joys that lure the sense,

Lead lives of holy abstinence;

Who, when reviled, their tongues restrain,

And, injured, injure not again;

Who ask of none, but freely give

Most liberal to all that live;

Who toil unresting through the day,

Their parents' joy and hope and stay;

Who welcome to their homes the guest,
And banish envy from their breast;
With reverent study love to pôre
On precepts of our sacred lore;

Who work not, speak not, think not sin,
In body pure and pure within ;
Whom avarice can ne'er mislead
To guilty thought or sinful deed ;
Whose fancy never seeks to roam

From the dear wives who cheer their home;

Whose hero souls cast fear away

When battling in a rightful fray;

Who speak the truth with dying breath

Undaunted by approaching death,

Their lives illumed with beacon light
To guide their brothers' steps aright;
Who loving all, to all endeared,
Fearless of all by none are feared;
To whom the world with all therein,
Dear as themselves, is more than kin
Who yield to others, wisely meek,

The honours which they scorn to seek ;
Who toil that rage and hate may cease,
And lure embittered foes to peace;
Who serve their God, the laws obey,

And earnest, faithful, work and pray ;

To these, the bounteous, pure, and true,
Is highest glory justly due.

Mahabharata.

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Who gift for gift returns.

Not with the rich thy treasures share;

Give aid to those who need;

And, with the gold thy wants can spare,
The poor and hungry feed.

Be sure that those who would receive

Deserve and crave thy care;

And ponder, ere thy hands relieve,

The how, and when, and where.

THE WISE SCHOLAR.

I hold that scholar truly wise

Who schools his heart and lips and eyes:

Who can as worthless clay behold

The treasures of another's gold:

Who looks upon his neighbour's wife

As upon her who gave him life:

Who feels as for himself for all

That live on earth, both great and small.

THE END.

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