THE CANTUARiAN They walked togetber all the day And with their mouths they made fu ll play And talked and kissed, until the knight Had fallen to this lady bright, And soon into a sleep be fell, Another victim of the spell. For many weeks Sir Leoline He loved the Lady Geraldine Until, at last, he slowly too Did fade away and die quite soon, And never more was Geraldine Around his castle precincts seen, For, on the night be died, she went And faded, like a phantom dread, Back to her land beyo nd tbe dead. And now up to the chilly moon The mastiff bitch she howls alone, Her master to the dead has gone, Her mistress also has passed on ; So she, at last, wi tb many a sigh Lies down on the hard grou nd to die. CONCLUSION TO PART III The Wand 'ring pair lost in the wood,_ Sir Leoline, he has gone mad, His daughter, on tbe ground she lies And very soon she sighs and dies. The mastiff bitch lets out a moan And dies witbout a nother groan. T he laughter running through the trees T he laJlghter rippling o'er the breeze, And there the Lady Geraldine Soon fades, and leaves no trace behind. DON P EDRO GUALLANCHERO.
TH E MAN IN HOSPITAL lie was sitting up in bed, over in the fa r corner of the ward. The light from the Itll , dingy windows did not reach him as easily a~ it rea~hed the otbers,-he seemed I" he in a perpetual shadow. But this shadow, thIS half-lIght, was strangelr offset by 1111 fll ct that of all the people in rhe ward, he was ObvIOusly the most determlOed to get I.. II 'r. Th; other patients,- tilis was a civilian casualty ward,-were lying quietly III h 'd merely taking their treatment as it came; all they looked forwa rd to was the II. I ,{,eal, the arrival of the next post, Visitors ' Day. Their interests were only " "Illora ry, varying from day to da y. True, they all wanted to be let out as soon as I'" "Iblo, but meanwhile they were having a well-earned rest, xnd, sillce everythmg pos357
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