301 JOY OF PYLADES ON HEARING HIS NATIVE LANGUAGE H, sweetest voice! Oh blessed familiar sound OH of mother-words heard in the stranger's land! I see the blue hills of my native shore, the far blue hills again! those cordial tones F. HEMANS, translated from GOETHE THERE is a no feit 'HERE is a jewel which no Indian mine can buy, it makes men rich in greatest poverty, makes water wine, turns wooden cups to gold; 303 FOLLY OF HEAPING UP RICHES GRIEVOUS folly to heap up estates, losing the days you see beneath the sun: when, sudden, comes blind unrelenting fate, and gives the untasted portion you have won with ruthless toil and many a wretch undone, to those who mock you gone to Pluto's reign, there with sad ghosts to pine and shadows dun. J. THOMSON 304 THE DREGS OF LIFE IFE, with you, glows in the brain and dances in the arteries; 'tis like the wine some joyous guest hath quaffed, that glads the heart and elevates the fancy ;—. mine is the poor residuum of the cup vapid and dull and tasteless, only soiling πνεῦμα θεοῦ χρῆσις WET the earth cover and protect its dead! LET and let man's breath thither return in peace from whence it came; his spirit to the skies, his body to the clay of which 'twas formed, which he and all must render back again, THE RESOLUTE MAN R. CUMBERLAND ALL my life long I have beheld with most respect the man H. TAYLOR 307 LOVE-ITS POWER TO TRANSFORM CHARACTER 308 OVE shall suspect, where is no cause of fear; should most mist it shall be merciful and too severe, and most deceiving, when it seems most just; as dry combustious matter is to fire. W. SHAKESPEARE LOVE-ITS ANIMATING ENERGIES OVE to the slowest subtilty can teach, Land to the dumb give fair and flowing speech it makes the coward daring, and the dull and idle diligent, and promptness full. It makes youth ever youthful, takes from age gives beauty to deformity-is seen to value what is valueless and mean. JUAN RUIZ 309 310 311 312 N HAPPY INSENSIBILITY O: 'tis the infant mind, to care unknown, light slumbers vanish from the clouded eyes: are then divorced: the head and heart are foes: 'TIS WEALTH IS money that obtaineth men their friends; likewise their honours: and that doth conduct to the sweet seat of highest sovereignty. Then too, there's no one, that's to wealth a foe'; For wealth is skilled to mount untrodden heights I IRRESOLUTION STRIVE like to the vessel in the tide-way, power to stem the powerful current.-Even so, habit, strong circumstance, renewed temptation, WHAT MIGHT WITHOUT RIGHT WHAT tygre or what other salvage wight as wrong, when it hath armed itselfe with might? but 'mongst wyld beasts and salvage woods to dwell; E. SPENSER 313 314 315 316 A SIMILE LIFE ebbs from such old age, unmarked and silent, as the slow neap-tide leaves yon stranded galley.— that wind or wave could give; but now her keel an angle with the sky, from which it shifts not. WHO SEVERANCE OF FRIENDSHIP swerves from innocence, who makes divorce of that serene companion, a good name, recovers not his loss; but walks with shame, with doubt, with fear, and haply with remorse : and ofttimes he who, yielding to the force of chance temptation, ere his journey end, from chosen comrade turns or faithful friendin vain shall rue the broken intercourse. JUSTICE W. WORDSWORTH I.WP. Justice, Madam. HAT would'st thou have, good fellow? H. O ambitious beggar, would'st thou have that Why, all the undelved mines cannot buy an ounce of justice, 'tis a jewel so inestimable and there is none but what comes from him. DEATH'S SUMMONS T. KYD O, I am Death; with aim as sure as steady, I call thee I require thee, man! be ready! where is the power that does not own me-fear me? I pull the string-thou liest in dust below, DE CARRION 317 AFFECTION SHOULD NOT BE CROSST BY PARENTS DO ill in this, 318 319 320 I and must not think but that a parent's plaint Yet reason tells us, parents are o'erseen, FOR POPULAR LAWLESSNESS R. TAILOR OR give once swey unto the people's lustes to rush forth on, and stay them not in time, and as the streame that rowleth downe the hyll, so will they headlong runne with raging thoughtes from bloud to bloud, from mischiefe unto moe, to ruine of the realme, themselves and all; so giddy are the common people's mindes, so glad of chaunge, more wavering than the sea. GR VIRTUE-ITS OWN REWARD T. SACKVILLE REAT minds, like Heaven, are pleased with doing though the ungrateful subjects of their favours RULE BY KINDNESS, NOT BY FEAR HE who performs his duty driven to't N. ROWE by fear of punishment, while he believes |