TUE AURORA BORRALp.
The cold white snow lies silent everywhere;
A death like stillness fills the listening air ;
The groat, pale moon of winter rises slow
And vainly seeks to warm the icy snow.
Uncanny lights o'er lurking shadows brood,
And Druid priest In sacrificial, mood
With long, white looks and beard, like sheeted ghost,
Looks weird, as blood•red flames his victims roast
The ghastly, lurid fires upward shoot,
Swift up the cold, blue heavens,straight their route,
And half tile sky is stained with blood to-night,
Sublime and awful—this the Northern Light.
—Oberlin Review
MARL ITEItITE.
Across the meadow and through the lane
The cows are lelSurely wending their, way ;
The sun is pouring o'er hill and plain,
A 11 JO of gold at close ofday.
The birds are warbling their evening notes,
A carol sweet from a hundred throats ;
But all the sounds of that hour repeat,
Softly and tenderly, Marguerite I
And there she stands in tl►e waning light,
Her sweet face turned from my glance away ;
Her dark eyes shining like beads of nights,
While soft in her tresses the zephyrs play ;
A hand in mine, so tender and white.
My bosom thrills with a strange delight,
And Cepld is smiling as I repeat,
Softly and pleadingly, Marguerite I
Tho' time is speeding and duties watt ; •
Tho' night is coming and in the sky
The stars are telling the hour is late,
Tor this we care not ; . my love and I;
Tar sweeter to us, than the song of bird,
Or the voice of night ; is the whispered word
Of mutual love that we oft repeat,
I and my loved one, Marguerite
Then sing to me not of silver or gold,
Of sparkling diamonds, or precious pearls,
Nor I have a treasureand wealth untold,—
Am happier far than a hundred earls ;
And some bright day, in the month of May,
When the roses bloom and the lambkins play,
I'll claim for my own, my fair, my sweet,
My tenderly loved, my:Marguerite
EXCHANGES.
The Lafayette has. adOpted reformed Spelling.
For the present,and until the editors become more
expert in the correction of proof, the new method
THE FREE LANCE.
"With all due respect for the judgment and
opinions of men who have made education and the
government of college men their life work and
life study, with a proper regard for the weight an
established custom should have, if for no other
reason, at least because of its very age, and with
a great measure of reluctance to set our opinions
over against those of tried and proved educators,
we must say, and . think the trend of modern
thought justifies us in. saying, that compulsory
church attendance in colleges is a relic and should
be relegated to the' oblivion where all such relics
naturally belong and must inevitably find their
way. We would not for the world speak dispar
agingly of the preaching of the gospel, but the
gospel, like some other good things, when forced
down one's throat with the spoon called "fear of
demerits," is apt to become nauseating. We fail
to see how the ends of true religion are subserved,
r the realization of the ideal man, a man inde
pendent in thought and action, is aided by the con
tinuance of a custom that savors strongly of by
gone ages, when men went to religious services
much like they now take pills, (especially those
that possess soporific qualities). We are glad to
note that a recent canvass of Amherst College on
this subject showed a vast majority of men oppos
ed to compulsory. church attendance, and the ma
jority was especially great amongst the men who
were professedly Christians." •
—Coltem; Rambla)
The Trinity Table/ is endeavoring to raise the
money to publish, in book form, the verse that has
been from time to time produced at Trinity.
Judging from the high standard of the verse
appearing in the Tablet the production of such a
book cannot fail to reflect great credit to Trinity.
will. be used only. in the editorial,. literary. and
sketches Gradually the whole paper will be is.;
sued with the new method.
We have noticed recently in quite a number of
our exchanges, editorials commenting on corn
pulsory attendance at chapel and we clip, for the
benefit of our readers, an editorial on the subject
from the Mckinsonian.