"TIME AND ETERNITY.

"How long sometimes a day appears!
And weeks, how long are they!
Months move as slow as if the years
Would never pass away.

"It seems a long, long time ago
That I was taught to read;
And since I was a babe, I know
'Tis very long indeed.

"Days, months, and years are passing by,
And soon will all be gone;
And day by day, as minutes fly,
Eternity comes on.

"Days, months and years must have an end;
Eternity has none.
'Twill always have as long to spend
As when it first begun.

"Great God! no finite mind can tell
How much a thing can be:
I only pray that I may dwell
That long, long time _with Thee_."

JANE TAYLOR.