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"And they who walk upon the heights,
Not hurtled by the passing storm,
Have carried long in lower lands
The grievous burdens that deform
The small of faith, the weak of heart,
The narrow-minded and untrue,
Who doubt if any heaven is left
When clouds are blown across its blue.

"And they are not of those who seek
To put unsolved things away,
Too early saying to their hearts,
'Come out, for it is holiday!'
And often 'tis the shallowest soul
That makes unseemly laughter ring,
That dares not bide amid its ghosts,
And, lest it weep, must try to sing.

"Wait till the tooth of pain is dulled;
Wait till the wound is overgrown:
Not in a day the moss hath made
So fair this once unsightly stone."
Then was I silent, but less wroth,
Content my heart should have its way.
Believing that in God's fit time
We yet should keep our holiday.

HOWARD GLYNDON.

PHILADELPHIA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS.

Zoological gardens for Philadelphia have been a dream for many years,
and spasmodic efforts have been made from time to time to produce the
reality, but as yet nothing tangible has resulted. The idea has been too
inchoate to develop much enthusiasm, and year after year our citizens
have returned from enjoying the delights of foreign gardens, and mildly
wondered, in the true Philadelphia style, why we should not have them.
Nor is this marvelous when we consider the present condition of the
proposed Centennial Exhibition, which, it is mortifying to confess,
languishes for want of proper support. It cannot be denied that in this
undertaking an opportunity is presented that would be eagerly seized,
with all its attendant labor and expense, by any one of the States, and
that it was with great difficulty, and only because of the self-evident
incongruity of holding it elsewhere, that we were permitted by the
national authorities to celebrate the anniversary in Philadelphia. It is
in connection with this, and as a part thereof, that the Zoological
Gardens deserve immediate attention, as an additional, and next to the
grand exhibition itself the principal, attraction to the hundreds of
thousands who will visit the City of Brotherly Love on the Fourth of
July, 1876. The plan on the next page shows the ground which has been
granted by the Commissioners of the Fairmount Park to the Philadelphia
Zoological Society. The g