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“Who but a Christian through all life 
That blessing may prolong; 
Who through the world’s sad day of strife 
Still chant his morning song ? 
“Fathers may hate us or forsake: 
God’s foundlings then are we; 
Mother ®n child no pity take, 
But we shall still have Thee. 
“We may look home and seek in vain 
A fond, fraternal heart, 
But Christ hath given His promise plain 
To do a brother’s part. 
“Nor shall dull age, as worldlings say, 
The heavenward flame annoy: 
The Savior cannot pass away, 
And with Him lives our joy. 
“Ever the richest, tenderest glow 
Sets round th’ autumnal sun; 
But there sight fails; no heart can know 
The bliss when life is done.” 
— Keble. 
A sub-species of quartz, of a bluish violet color, of different degrees 
of intensity. It generally occurs crystalized in hexehedral prisms termi¬ 
nated by corresponding pyramids; also in rolled fragments, composed of 
imperfect prismatic crystals. It is wrought into various articles of jew¬ 
elry. Oriental amethyst , the violet-blue variety of transparent crystalized 
corundum. 
