3 MAY 1890, Page 16

" ALTRUISM."

WE may not all attain the promised land

That youth bolds as its rightful heritage, Manhood still craves, and disappointed age Dreams of, yet hopes no longer there to stand. The lawgiver of old, at whose command Forth from the rock the longed-for water sped (As he through arid wastes God's Israel led), Who failed to own in this his Maker's hand, Saw from the mountain heights by Jordan's wave That land out-stretching to the distant main. He knew those erring ones were come at last To rest and plenty, all their wand'rings past,.

And scanned but from afar the fertile plain Ere angels laid him in his unknown grave.

ALICE FARBER'.