Free from the wounding and tormenting cares
That toss the thoughtful, active, busy mind!

The Fall of Caius Marius, Act III. Scene I.-T. OTWAY.

LIFE of Man, and Life in Nature.

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Man has another day to swell the past,
And lead him near to little, but his last
But mighty Nature bounds as from her birth,
The sun is in the heavens, and life on earth;
Flowers in the valley, splendour in the beam,
Health on the gale, and freshness in the stream.
Immortal man! behold her glories shine,
And cry, exulting inly, "they are thine!"
Gaze on while yet thy gladdened eye may see;
A morrow comes when they are not for thee:
And grieve what may above thy senseless bier,
Nor earth nor sky will yield a single tear;
Nor clouds shall gather more, nor leaf shall fall,
Nor gale breathe forth one sigh for thee, for all;
But creeping things shall revel in their spoil,

And fit thy clay to fertilize the soil.

Lara, Canto II. Verse I.-LORD BYRON.

LIFE and DEATH.

If we begin to die when we live, and long life be but a prolongation of death, our life is a sad composition; we live with death, and die not in a moment.

Urn Burial.-SIR T. BROWNF.

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LIFE and DEATH.

Life's ills end well upon death's bed;

Yet life shrinks back from death with dread.
Life sees but the dark hand, and not

The clear cup, that it holds, instead.

Strung Pearls.—RUCKERT.

'Tis but a night, a long and moonless night; We make the grave our bed, and then are gone! Thus, at the shut of even, the weary bird Leaves the wide air, and in some lonely brake Cow'rs down, and doses till the dawn of day, Then claps his well-fledg'd wings, and bears away. The Grave.-ROBERT BLAIR.

LIGHT.

Light is the most immediate outward agent and minister of God's love, the most powerful and rapid diffuser of His blessings through the whole universe of His creation. It blesses the earth, and makes her bring forth herbs and plants. It blesses the herbs and plants, and makes them bring forth their grain and their fruit. It blesses every living creature, and enables all to support and enjoy their existence. Above all, it blesses man, in his goings out and his comings in, in his body and in his soul, in his senses and in his imagination, and in his affections; in his social intercourse with his brother, and in his solitary communion with his Maker. Merely blot out light from the earth, and joy will pass

away from it; and health will pass away from it; and life will pass away from it; and it will sink back into a confused, turmoiling chaos.

Light illumines everything, the lowly valley as well as the lofty mountain; it fructifies everything, the humblest herb as well as the lordliest tree; and there is nothing hid from its heat.

Sermon on The Victory of Faith.-ARCHDEACON HARE.

LIGHT, the Shadow of God.

Light that makes things seen makes some things invisible. Were it not for darkness, and the shadow of the earth, the noblest part of creation had remained unseen, and the stars in heaven as invisible as on the fourth day, when they were created above the horizon with the sun, and there was not an eye to behold them. The greatest mystery of religion is expressed by adumbration, and in the noblest part of Jewish types we find the cherubim shadowing the mercy-seat. Life itself is but the shadow of death, and souls departed but the shadows of the living. All things fall under this The sun itself is but the dark Simulachrum, and

name.

light but the shadow of God.

Christian Morals.-Sir THOMAS BROWNE.

LIGHT. Origin of

First-born of Chaos, who so far didst come
From the old Negro's darksome womb;

Which when it saw the lovely child,

The melancholy mass put on kind looks, and smiled. .

Thou tide of glory which no rest doth know,

But ever ebb and ever flow!

Thou golden show'r of a true Jove!

Who does in thee descend, and heaven to earth make

love!

LONELINESS.

Hymn to Light.-A. Cowley.

A sun-dial pillar left alone,

On which no dial meets the eye;

A black mill-wheel with grass o'ergrown,

That hears no water trickle by.

The Childless Sexton.-JOHN STIRLING.

LOVE. Definitions of

O Love, the beautiful and brief!

The Lay of the Bell.-SCHILLER.

For love, that comes to all; the holy sense,

Best gift of God.

Tribute to the memory of a favourite dog.
W. WORDSWORTH.

O heavenly Love!-'tis thy sweet task the human flowers to bind,

For aye apart, and yet by thee for ever intertwined!

The Sexes.-SCHILLER.

LOVE.

To embrace the whole creation with love sounds beautiful, but we must begin with the individual, with the nearest. And he who cannot love that deeply, intensely, entirely, how should he be able to love that which is remote and which throws but feeble rays upon him from a foreign star? How should he be able to love it with any feeling which deserves the name of love? The greatest cosmopolites are generally the neediest beggars, and they who embrace the entire universe with love, for the most part, love nothing but their narrow self. Philosophy of the History of Man. J. G. HERDER.

LOVE of Divine Origin.

Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Alla given,

To lift from earth our low desire.
Devotion wafts the mind above,
But Heaven itself descends in love;
A feeling from the Godhead caught,
To wean from self each sordid thought;
A ray of Him who formed the whole;
A Glory circling round the soul!

The Giaour, Line 1137.-LORD BYRON.

LOVE. Immortality of

They sin who tell us Love can die,
With life all other passions fly,