If we are faint and weary, then

We trust in that dear name.

Our Lady of the Rosary!

What name can be so sweet

As what we call thee when we place
Our chaplet at thy feet.

Bright Queen of Heaven! when we are sad
Best solace of our pains;—

It tells us, though on earth we toil,
Our Mother lives and reigns.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel! thus
Sometimes thy name is known;
It tells us of the badge we wear,
To live and die thine own.

Our Lady dear of Victories!
We see our faith oppressed,
And, praying for our erring land,
We love that name the best.

Refuge of Sinners! many a soul,
By guilt cast down, and sin,

Has learned through this dear name of thine
Pardon and peace to win.

Health of the Sick! when anxious hearts

Watch by the sufferer's bed,

On this sweet name of thine we lean,
Consoled and comforted.

Mother of Sorrows! many a heart
Half-broken by despair

Has laid its burden by the cross
And found a mother there.

Queen of all Saints! the Church appeals
For her loved dead to thee;

She knows they wait in patient pain
A bright eternity.

Fair Queen of Virgins! thy pure band,
The lilies round thy throne,

Love the dear title, which they bear,
Most that it is thine own.

True Queen of Martyrs! if we shrink
From want, or pain, or woe,

We think of the sharp sword that pierced
Thy heart, and call thee so.

Mary! the dearest name of all,
The holiest and the best;

The first low word that Jesus lisped
Laid on His mother's breast.

Mary! the name that Gabriel spoke,
The name that conquers hell;

Mary! the name that through high heaven
The angels love so well.

SALUTE TO OUR FLAG

Mary! our comfort and our hope,—

O may that word be given
To be the last we sigh on earth,

The first we breathe in heaven.

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SALUTE TO OUR FLAG

B. ELLEN BURKE

(This "salute" may be given by one pupil or by the whole class, in con zert. Appropriate gestures should be used.)

Our Flag! May your folds ever wave on the breeze

As an emblem of peace on land and on seas.
A sign of our courage, the red of the dawn
Which flushes the sky at the day's early morn;
A symbol of loyalty, tender and true,

We take from the sky its own beautiful blue;
For purity, innocence, loyalty, right,

We've chosen the color most fitting-pure white!
What a story you tell to countries and climes!
What a lesson you teach to ages and times!

In your stars and your bars the whole world may see
You stand for a nation, the home of the free!

We salute you, dear Flag, with your red and white bars,
May your union* shine ever with glorious stars,
Your folds shelter freemen; as years roll along
May all nations and people learn liberty's song.
We promise you here that we'll always be true

And, if need be, we'll die for the "Red, White, and Blue."

*The union of the United States flag is the upper, inner corner; the rest of the flag is called the fly.

THE COURAGEOUS BOY

In England, one day, a farmer at work in his fields saw a party of huntsmen riding over his farm. He had a field in which the wheat was just coming up, and he was anxious that the gentlemen should not go into that, as the trampling of the horses and dogs would spoil the crop.

He sent one of his farm hands, a bright young boy, to shut the gate of that field and to keep guard over it. He told him that he must on no account permit the gate to be opened.

Scarcely had the boy reached the field and closed the gate when the huntsmen came galloping up and ordered him to open it. This the boy declined to do.

Master," said he, “has ordered me to permit no one to pass through this gate, and I can neither open it myself nor allow any one else to do so."

First one gentleman threatened to whip him if he did not open it; then another offered him a sovereign; but all to no effect. The brave boy was neither to be frightened nor bribed.

Then a grand and stately gentleman came forward and said: "My boy, do you not know me? I am the Duke of Wellington-one not accustomed to be disobeyed; and I command you to open that gate, that I and my friends may pass."