_Two Lives._

They started out together Amid the worldly din; One yielded to temptation, And lived a life of sin: They found his lifeless body One pleasant summer dawn, All mangled in the gutter-- A wretched life was gone.

The other trod the pathway Of righteousness and truth, And kept his soul as spotless As in his early youth; And when his voyage was ended, On Heaven’s blissful shore He joined the great reunion, Where parting is no more.