IN A TRAIN.

By Amy Redpath Roddick

A lonesome landscape, brown and grey,

And chilled with flakes of smutchy snow,

So grimly dull that every ray

Of setting sun forgets its glow;

But in the train I sit with one.

Who clears my thoughts of wintry gloom;

She laughs!— and now a midday sun

Is coaxing summer flowers to bloom!