25 SEPTEMBER 1886, Page 16

POETRY.

[" Der Mansell hat drittehalb Minuten, eine an liioheln, eine zu seufren, mid eine halt* rn lieben, dont mitten in dieser Minute stirht er."j

Two minutes and a half has man to live; For laughter one, and one again for tears ; A third for love ; but those dark Fates that give Slit it, half-spun, with the "abhorred shears."

Prima datur lacrymis yaw pars, altera Han; Est etiam frustra quam sibi quwrit amor, Namque adimunt ipste quod concessere Sorores, Et vix in medio tennia fila secant. A. J. C.