The splendor will shine so far!" But the warden answered: "I dare not Set the beautiful gates ajar,"Spoke low and answered: "I dare not Set the beautiful gates ajar!"

Then rose up Mary the Blessed,
Sweet Mary, Mother of Christ :
Her hand on the hand of the angel

She laid, and her touch sufficed;
Turned was the key in the portal,
Fell ringing the golden bar ;
And lo! in the little child's fingers
Stood the beautiful gates ajar!
In the little child-angel's fingers
Stood the beautiful gates ajar!

"And this key, for further using,
To my blessed Son shall be given ;"
Said Mary, Mother of Jesus-
Tenderest heart in heaven.
Now, never a sad-eyed mother

But may catch the glory afar;
Since safe in the Lord Christ's bosom,
Are the keys of the gates ajar;
Close hid in the dear Christ's bosom,
And the gates forever ajar!

-From the Italian. ̧

OUT OF DOORS.

OUT OF DOORS.

THE CHILD'S WORLD.

"GREAT, wide, beautiful, wonderful world,
With the wonderful water round you curled,
And the wonderful grass upon your breast, -
World, you are beautifully drest.

"The wonderful air is over me,
And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree,
It walks on the water, and whirls the mills,
And talks to itself on the tops of the hills.

You, friendly Earth! how far do you go

With the wheat-fields that nod and the rivers that flow, With cities and gardens, and cliffs, and isles

And people upon you for thousands of miles?

Ah, you are so great, and I am so small,

I tremble to think of you, World, at all;
And yet, when I said my prayers, to-day,
A whisper inside me seemed to say,