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"Never," replied that forest-hermit lone
(Old truth and endless!)

"Never for evil done, but fortune flown,
Are we left friendless.

"Yet wholly nor for winter nor for storm
Doth Love depart!

We are not all forsaken till the worm
Creeps to the heart!

"Ah! nought without, within thee if decay,
Can heal or hurt thee;

Nor boots it, if thy heart itself betray,
Who may desert thee!"

Brilliants.

NIGHT.

Caroline. See, the moon hangs there on the verge of stars, Like a bright vestal at a temple porch.

Ferdinand. Ah, 'tis a blissful night! The universe Is a great rushing hymn of praise to God.

My heart is singing with the happy spheres;

Not a string jars, but all is harmony.

Night is the beautiful black slave of God,

And bends before him ever wrapt in awe,

While her great heart throbs thanks in burning stars!

BIGG.

BOOKS.

Some books are drenched sands,

On which a great soul's wealth lies all in heaps,
Like a wreck'd argosy. What power in books!
They mingle gloom and splendour, as I've oft,
In thund'rous sunsets, seen the thunder-piles
Seam'd with dull fire and fiercest glory-rents.
They awe me to my knees, as if I stood
In presence of a king. They give me tears;

Such glorious tears as Eve's fair daughters shed,
When first they clasp'd a Son of God, all bright
With burning plumes and splendours of the sky,
In zoning heaven of their milky arms.

How few read books aright! Most souls are shut
By sense from grandeur, as a man who snores
Night-capp'd and wrapt in blankets to the nose,
Is shut out from the night, which, like a sea,
Breaketh for ever on a strand of stars.
Lady, in book-world have I ever dwelt:
This book has domed my being like a sky.

LOVE.

ALEXANDER SMITH.

The joys of Love, if they should ever last
Without affliction or disquietness,

That worldly chances do amongst them cast,
Would be on earth too great a blessedness;
Liker to Heaven than mortal wretchedness:
Therefore the winged God, to let man weet
That here on earth is no sure happiness,

A thousand sours has temper'd with one sweet
To make it seem more dear and dainty, as is meet.
SPENSER.

LABOUR.

Let us go forth, and resolutely dare

With sweat of brow to toil our little day,
And if a tear fall on the task of care

In memory of those spring hours pass'd away
Brush it not by!

Our hearts to God! to brother men,

And labour, blessing, prayer, and then

To these a sign!

WOMAN.

MILNES.

The bleakest rock upon the loneliest heath
Feels in its barrenness some touch of Spring,
And in the April dew, or beam of May,
Its moss and lichens freshen and revive-

And thus the heart most sear'd to human pleasure,
Melts at the tear, joys at the smile of woman.

Sir JOSEPH BEAUMONT. b. 1582.

1

EARLY SPRING.

Each pretty bud repeats itself, but still
Seems from its little shell to venture out
In hues all newly-chosen; every note
Soft warble, liquid gush, or joyful shout
Does come with a first beauty on the ear,

Though 'tis the self-same song oft heard in the old year.
Mrs. BODDINGTON.

A BOOK.

It ceased, yet still the sails made on
A pleasant noise till noon,

A noise like of a hidden brook

In the leafy month of June,
That to the sleeping woods all night
Singeth a quiet tune.

HOPE.

COLERIDGE.

If haply from his guarded breast
Should steal the unsuspected sigh,
And memory, an unbidden guest,
With former passions fill'd his eye.
Then pious Hope and Duty poised,
The wisdom of the unerring sway,
And, while to heaven his eye he raised,
Its silent waters stole away.

THOUGHTS.

Dr. CARTWRIGHT.

The old thoughts never die. Immortal dreams
Outlive their dreamers and are ours for aye:
No thought once form'd and utter'd can expire.
MACKAY.

FAITH.

Thy God hath said 'tis good for thee
To walk by faith and not by sight;
Take it on trust a little while,
Soon shalt thou read the mystery right
In the bright sunshine of His smile.

KEBLE.

MEMENTO.

My son, be this thy simple plan;
Serve God, and love thy fellow man ;
Forget not, in temptation's hour,
That sin lends sorrow double power;
Count life a stage upon thy way,
And follow conscience, come what may,
Alike with heaven and earth sincere
With hand, and brow, and bosom clear;
Fear God, and know no other fear!

A PROPHETESS.

My dreams are wild

As the lank hair of ancient prophetess,
Streaming in frenzy on the midnight wild.

PRINGLE.

BIGG.

ARGUMENT FOR MERCY.

I have a plea,

As dewy-piteous as the gentle ghost's
That sits alone upon a forest-grave
Thinking of no revenge: I have a mandate
As magical and potent as e'er ran
Silently through a battle's myriad veins,
Undid their fingers from the hanging steel,
And drew them up in prayer: I AM A WOMAN.

BEDDOES.

AFFECTION.

Oh! cast thou not affection from thee

In this bitter world.

Hold to thy heart that only treasure fast;
Watch, guard it, suffer not a breath to dim
The bright gem's purity..

Mrs. HEMANS.

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