Roses--to Come

1 dreamed I had i plot of ground, Once when I chanced asleep to drop, And that a green bedgc fenced it round, Cloudy witli roKt-s at th top. I eo-w a hundrod mornings rise - So far a Hltle dream may rcach- And spring, with slimmer in lier eyes, ' Making tlie eb lef est eharm o( each. A thoiïsand vhies were climbing o'er The hedge, I thouRht, but as I tried To pull tbem down for evermore Tho üowers droppcd off the other sidel Waking, I said, "These things are signa Sent to inatruct us tbat 'tis ours Duly to keep and dress our vines - Waiting in patience for the flowers." And when the angel feared of all Across my hearth ita shadows spread. "The rose that cliinbed my garden waU Haa bloomed the other side, " I said.