Confiteor.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIII, Issue 1899, 6 September 1884, Page 2 (Supplement)

Confiteor.

A 31omj5nt may come to a man, and save j Eternally ; ! A green yew-tree and a little grave, ] And a memory. i Heart throbbing qaick, as the swift days i sweep i Past like a ghost, Bong days, sad days, since you fell asleep, Little one lost. Can you hear me, little one, sleeping fast Under the yew ? I have missed you since the Death-Angel past Betwixt us two. Years since, I carried yon robed in white, In sad spring hoar, And hid you here from the warm sunlight — Poor little flower I I may not roll back the se&Ung-stone, And see you, dear, But lot me whisper you here alone — No one can hear. Why did you leave me J I needed aid, Aid of child-grace, For the evil things would have been afraid Of your sweet face. For a whole life's wrong I would make redress For your loved sake, I have sinned a sin ; — let heart confess, Or heart will break. I kneel by the dead child's grave, and vow A sacred word ; And through the silenoe that falls, I know My vow is heard. ; Frdre Sauvaqe.

An American paper calls attention to a theory of life which, it asserts, was held by the great Faraday. This theory makes the duration of life depend upon the time occupied in growth, leafing all questions of disease or accident which may shorten life out of the question altogether. Man _ occupies twenty years in the business of growing. This number multiplied by five will give the age to which he ought, tinder favorable circumstances, to live— namely, one hundred years. A camel, oooupying eight years in growing, ought to live by the same rule forty years ; and so on with other animals. Human life he divided into two periods— growth and decline, and these were subdivided into infancy, lasting from birth to the age of twenty; youth, lasting from twenty to fifty ; virility, from fifty to seventy -five; after which comes age.