Chapter 26 No.26

And when love's torch hath set the heart in flame,

Comes Seignor Reason, with his saws and cautions,

Giving such aid as the old gray-beard Sexton,

Who from the church-vault drags the crazy engine,

To ply its dribbling ineffectual streamlet

Against a conflagration.

OLD PLAY.

In a musing mood, Roland Graeme upon the ensuing morni