THE HOME CIRCLE | AdventAI

Pacific Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Oakland, California · Dec 5, 1878

THE HOME CIRCLE.

Three School Girls.

THREE schoolgirls over their lessons bent, All still, by the evening light; Their lips in a busy murmur went, For the task must be done to-night; "To-morrow," they said, "we shall sore repent, If all is not learned aright."

"Now what," said Maud, "is the worst you fear If the lesson at last should fail?" And May looked up with a grimace queer— "Oh, I know that the rest would rail, That the girls would laugh and the boys would sneer— At the very thought I quail."

"And what," said Grace, "is your thought of dread?" And Maud said, "Oh, that frown! If I left to my teacher a word unsaid, And brought his censure down. More his displeasure would bow my head, Than the sneers of all the town."

"Then what," cried May, "would you grieve for most?" "And," said Grace, "My heart would burn That I had forgotten at such dear cost The truth that we all must learn; I should grieve," she said, "for the lesson lost, And the day that would ne'er return."