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156 We were married when the holly Bloomed the Christmas greens among; Still love's tokens are as precious As they were when we were young. Once again we walk together Down the path to memory dear, And I kiss her by the lakeside 'Mid the Halloweven cheer.

[From " Hiawatha."]

Never stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge and follows; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions; "When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gat hering flock-wise Round their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.