Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878, page 99 by Various Authors
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random stone thrown against a wall will smash a whole colony; and there are besides polyps and sea-anemones and other strange animals of eccentric habits in unusual abundance. The visitors to Tenby find great diversion in these and the other caves on the coast: in fact, the whole coast as far as Milford Haven is one succession of natural curiosities and antiquities. One cavern bears the name of Merlin's Cave, and is hallowed by a legend of the enchanter, who was born at Carmarthen in the next county.
WIRT SIKES.
NOCTURNE.
There'll come a day when the supremest splendor Of earth or sky or sea, Whate'er their miracles, sublime or tender, Will wake no joy in me.
There'll come a day when all the aspiration, Now with such fervor fraught, As lifts to heights of breathless exaltation, Will seem a thing of naught.
There'll come a day when riches, honor, glory, Music and song and art, Will look like puppets in a wornout story, Where each has played his part.
There'll come a day when human love, the sweetest Gift that includes the whole Of God's grand giving--sovereignest, completest-- Shall fail to fill my soul.
There'll come a day--I will not care how passes The cloud across my sight, If only, lark-like, from earth's nested grasses, I spring to meet its light.
MARGARET J. PRESTON.
CHAPTER IV.
It was soon decided that I was to set out for The Headlands the first week in October. I had studied too hard, and was growing so tall and slight that Harry Dart used to draw caricatures of me, taking me in sections, he declared, since no ordinary piece of paper would suffice for a full-length. I was glad of a change, yet felt some sorrow about it too. I knew nothing of what it was to miss the warm home-life and the constant companionship which had filled ev