CORONACH.-SCOTT. He is gone on the mountain, he is lost to the forest, Like a summer-dried fountain, when our need was the sorest; Red hand in the foray, how sound is thy slumber! Like the dew on the mountain, like the foam on the river, Like the bubble on the fountain, thou art gone and forever! HUMAN FRAILTY.-DRUMMOND. A good, that never satisfies the mind; A beauty fading like the April flowers; A sweet, with floods of gall that runs combined; A pleasure passing ere in thought made ours; An honor, that more fickle is than wind; A glory, at opinion's frown that lours; A treasury, which bankrupt time devours; A knowledge, than grave ignorance more blind; VIRTUE.-Herbert. Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Thy root is ever in its grave, And thou must die. Sweet Spring, full of sweet days and roses, My music shows ye have your closes, Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timber, never gives; WESTMINSTER BRIDGE.-WORDSWORTH. Earth has not any thing to show more fair: In his first splendor, valley, rock, or hill; The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! LOVE.-SHAKSPEARE. Let me not to the marriage of true minds O no! it is an ever fixèd mark, That looks on tempests, and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error, and upon me proved, I never writ, nor no man ever loved. CROSSING THE BAR.-TENNYSON. Sunset and evening star And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam, When that which drew from out the boundless deep Turns again home. Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell When I embark. For tho' from out our bourne of Time and Place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crossed the bar. MILTON.-WORDSWORTH. Milton thou shouldst be living at this hour; Of stagnant waters: altar, sword, and pen, Of inward happiness. We are selfish men; And give us manners, virtue, freedom, power. So didst thou travel on life's common way BOSOM SIN.-HERBERT. Lord, with what care hast Thou begirt us round! NEVER AGAIN.-STODDARD. There are gains for all our losses, There are balms for all our pain; Under manhood's sterner reign; DISAPPOINTMENT.-Lowell. I pray thee call not this society; I asked for bread, thou givest me a stone; Souls of true men, of women who can move Souls that can hold with mine communion free. And all that makes us pure, and wise, and good, Come, broken-hearted, home again to die? No, Hope is left, and prays with bended head, "Give us this day, O God, our daily bread!" CHANGE.-DRUMMOND. Triumphing chariots, statues, crowns of bays, Sky-threatening arches, the rewards of worth, Books heavenly wise in sweet harmonious lays, Which men divine unto the world set forth; States, which ambitious minds in blood do raise, From frozen Tanais unto sun-burnt Gange; Gigantic frames, held wonders rarely strange,Like spiders' webs, are made the sport of days. Nothing is constant but inconstant change: What's done is still undone, and, when undone, Into some other fashion it doth range. Thus goes the floating world beneath the Moon: Wherefore, my mind, above time, motion, place, Rise up, and steps unknown to Nature trace. THE SKYLARK.-HOGG. Bird of the wilderness, Blithesome and cumberless, Sweet be thy matin o'er moorland and lea! Blest is thy dwelling place, O to abide in the desert with thee! Far in the downy cloud, Love gives it energy, love gave it birth. Where art thou journeying? Thy lay is in heaven, thy love is on earth, O'er moor and mountain green, O'er the red streamer that heralds the day, Over the cloudlet dim, Over the rainbow's rim, Musical cherub, soar, singing, away! Low in the heather blooms Sweet will thy welcome and bed of love be! SOLITUDE.-KEATS. O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep,- In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap But though I'll gladly trace these scenes with thee WAGES.-TENNYSON. Glory of warrior, glory of orator, glory of song, The wages of sin is death: if the wages of Virtue be dust, A SONG FROM THE ARCADIA.-SIDNEY. Since Nature's works be good, and death doth serve Since fear is vain, but when it may preserve; Why should we fear that which we cannot fly? Disarming human minds of native might; Which were not ill, well viewed in reason's light. Our life is but a step in dusty way. Then let us hold the bliss of peaceful mind, |