Tired.

TIRED .

0 for wings , that I might soar A little way above the floor—A little way beyond the roar—A little nearer to the sky ! To the blue hills , lifted high ,

Out of all our misery . Where alone is heard the lark , Warbling in the infinite are , From the dawning to the dark . Where the callow eaglets wink

. On the bare and breezy brink , And slow pinions rise and sink . Where dim white breakers beat Under cloud-drifts of our feet , Singing , singing , low and sweet .

Where we see the glimmering hay Greyly melting far away , On the confines of the day . Where the green larch-fringes sweep Rocky defiles , still and steep , Where the tender lichens creep .

"Where thegentian-bbssoms blow , Set in crystal stars of snow ; "Where the downward torrents flow , To the plains and yellow leas , Glancing , twinkling , through the trees ,

Pure , as from celestial seas . Where the face of heaven has smiled , Aye on freedom , sweet and wild , Aye on beauty , nndefiled . Where no sound of human speech ,

And no human passions reach ; Where the angels sit and teach . Where no troublous foot has trod ; Where is impressed on the sod Only Hand and Heart of God ! —American Keystone .

Distinctions Of Language.

DISTINCTIONS OF LANGUAGE .

BY AV . S . HOOPER . I have on my desk a letter from " Germany , " asking the distinction between "high and low Dutch , " as used in my article in the February number of the

" Voice , " and saying : — " Now your humble servant , hailing from ' Fatherland , ' Avould he pleased to he enlightened as to the meaning of said sentence . In my ignorance I have ahvays believed that the Germans spoke the

German language , but I see I was mistaken . " The tenor of Germany ' s letter seems to indicate the feeling that the expression " high and IOAV Dutch " Avas used as a term of derision . In this he is mistaken , for I use no derisive epithets in regard to . other

peoples or nationalities , and merely'used that common expression to plainly express a thought used in the more literary circles as " hig h and IOAV German . " I used the Avords , not to express a thought of my own , but to state a fact patent to all who have looked into the history and dev-elopment of language , namely , that no language remains long the

same . The German language as spoken to-day is very different from that of a hundred years ago . The English of one hundred years ago if spoken to-day Avould not be readily understood by those best versed in the English language . There is no

country where there is not a great difference in the dialects spoken . In one part of Ireland one class of people speaks the native Irish , Avhile in another part other classes speak the English . There is a great difference in

speaking the English language by the people of Ireland , England and America . The same difference exists m America in pronunciation , inflection and intonation . A man of New York has a very different manner of speaking from one in Ohio or

Illinois . This same truth prevails in the countries of Europe and the East . Even the Arabs with all their unity of race and ties of nomadic life show these same differences . Among the Mongolian races these different mann ersof expression and dialects