POETRY.
MILL HILL'S REVENGE.
Me late Mr. Murray Spicer, the victim of a "Hooligan" outrage in St. Pancras, was an old Mill Hill boy. The head-master, Dr. McClure, recently announced that the boys intend to avenge their comrade's death by planting on the scene of the outrage a Settlement to be supported and worked by the wheel.]
WHEN from that underworld whereon the slight Foundations of our palaces are built,
The werwolves of the darkness pour by night And show high heaven their misery and their guilt, Beast-like they ravin, till our hearts aflame Cry out for vengeance, and we bare the sword, And drag them forth to punishment and shame, Cr thrust them to the darkness where they horde.
Far from the region where that darkness falls, Girdled by ancient trees, the schoolhouse stands Nursing revenge for one who trod her halls, Untimely slain by coward, wolfish hands.
"Go forth," she says, "my sons, and where he fell Uprear a monument, and on the height A beacon for the gloom, that they who dwell Within the shadow may behold the light."
B. PAUL NEUMAN.
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