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Show ACROSS THE WAY. "Hare you no friends across tho way f Sly little city darling aald; "And when there come a rainy day. Can't you look out. and nod your head To some one else, as 1 can do To Will and FrcJ and baby 8ue? I beard you tell nianyna today You had no friend across the way." "But I havo friends doar friends," I cried With quick, remorseful thought of home "A band of brothers, side by side. To greet mo if I go or come How dear they are, I cannot any I Nor how It cheers mo day by day To see across the valley fc.r. How strong and beautiful they arel "And you should seo the robes they wear Their mantiie thick and soft of green, Then ralubow tinted, yet more fair, Or ei'inlao wrr.ua with silver sheen. Rut yet 1 think 1 loro them btM When, nil in somber shadows dreat. Their broken ranks in silence lio Beneath the solemn midnight sky. "Sometimes a misty curtain drawn Between us Mdc-a these friends from me) But when at sunset it is gone, I Dear child, how fair the Night I seel Kor where the nearer ranks divide, Th gates of alory opiu wide; And lo I In that unearthly liht The farther hills traiu;fiured quite; While yet another und a.ioth?r e Voem o'er tlio sliouMor of his brother, Anil smiles through rosy mist and seems to any, 'Heaven lice beyond ua-such a little way.' " "Such friends are nice, " ahe aof Uy said, "For any one aa old as you; And when I'm old an you are dead, Perhaps I'll go and ueo them too. Put now I'd rather watch to sea Children acroet the street from mej ' And nod to will, and play peep-bo With cumiiug little baby Sue." tjutau 11. Luilhim lu Harper's Baiaa |