Verses. By Christina Rossetti. (S.P.C.K.)—These verses are reprinted from certain
volumes of devotional poetry which Miss Rossetti has published, viz.," Called to be Saints," "Time Flies," and "The Face of the Deep." They are arranged under various heads. The first section consists of poems specially addressed to the Person of the Redeemer; the second contains commemorations of various "Feasts and Fasts." Other descriptions are "Gifts and Graces," "The World—Self Destruction," "Divers Worlds— Time and Eternity," "New Jerusalem and its Citizens," "Songs for Strangers and Pilgrims." We may quote a sonnet from the last.
"Shadows to-day, while shadows show God's Will, Light were not good except He sent us Wait. Shadows to-day, becanao this day is night,
Whose Ice, vole and whose wyste ies fuldl Their ronrso, and deep in darkness PM) Him still, Thou dim aurora, on the ultremest height Of airy summits wax not overbright;
Refrain thy rose, refrain thy daffodil, Until God's Word so torch to kindle Wilco And gitrland thee, and bid thee stoop t ) us, Blush in the heavenly (Moira and glance not down To-day we rani, in darkuess for a crown. In darkness for beatitude to me,
Iii darkness for the city luminous."
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