y--
_Freedom's Charter_ wide unfurled!

_Chorus:_

Float, O Flag, reflecting Heaven! where God plants the clustering stars,
In the blue depths of thy infinite--so vast that nothing jars!

God of mercy, smile upon us!
Mercy yet shall rule our land;
Thought be free, all creeds untrammelled,
Honor follow labor's hand;
All be equal; men be brothers;
They must work who fain would soar,
Work in earnest for the _Human_,--
Pride and scorn be known no more.

_Chorus:_

Float, O Flag of mystic colors; red with love; star-gemmed thy Blue;
Peace blends in white thy Rainbow light, and waves her snow-wings
through!

God of love, O smile upon us!
Love shall shine through all our laws;
Love shall link each State in Union;
Love which knows nor rest, nor pause.
Love is central Heart of nations;
Love will draw all wandering stars
To our field of boundless azure,
Held by God from all that mars!

Chorus:

Wildly pours our hearts' blood on thee--crimson current warm and true,
Each dead hero links us closer--float on Flag, Red, White, and Blue!

God of Union, smile upon us!
Flag of Union, greet the skies!
On thy stars and _chording_ colors
Every hope for mortals lies!
Blasted be the hand would strike thee!
Blighted heart and palsied brain!
Float till earth knows no oppression,
Falsehood, bondage, slavery, pain!

Chorus:

Float, Flag of love; fused States and lives! shine stars on God's own
Blue!
Love's crimson current gird them close! white-winged Peace wind through!

M. W. C.

THE GOOD GODDESS OF POVERTY.

[_A Prose Ballad, translated from the French_.]

We think the following beautiful Chant, in honor of the good goddess
whose favors we are too apt to scorn, and whom we persist in treating
with dire ingratitude, cannot fail to prove acceptable to the readers of
the Editor's Table.

M. W. C.

I.

Desert paths strewed with golden sands, rich and undulating
prairies, ravines loved by the bounding deer and agile chamois,
mountains wreathed with clouds or crowned with glittering
coronets of stars, wandering and leaping torrents,
impenetrable and gloomy forests,--let her pass, let her pass:

The Goddess--the good Goddess of