12. Abraham Lincoln, 1809.

A people is but the attempt of many
To rise to the completer life of one.
And those who live as models for the mass
Are singly of more value than they all.

13. Talleyrand, 1754.

LURIA.

Religion's all or nothing: it's no mere smile
O' contentment, sigh of aspiration, sir

No quality o' the finelier-tempered clay

Like its whiteness or its lightness; rather stuff
O' the very stuff, life of life and self of self.
MR. SLUDGE, "THE MEDIUM."

14. Winfield Scott Hancock, 1824.

Old folk and young folk, still at odds, of course! Age quarrels because Spring puts forth a leaf While Winter has a mind that boughs stay bare.

RED COTTON NIGHT-CAP COUNTRY.

15. Ash Wednesday.

Let us not always say

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'Spite of this flesh to-day

I strove, made head, gained ground upon the

whole !"

As the bird sings and wings,

Let us cry "All good things

Are ours, nor soul helps flesh more, now, than flesh

helps soul!"

RABBI BEN EZRA.

16. Philip Melanchthon, 1497.
He loves both old and young,
Able and weak, affects the very brutes
And birds-how say I? flowers of the field
As a wise workman recognizes tools

In a master's workshop, loving what they make.
Thus is the man as harmless as a lamb ;
Only impatient, let him do his best,
At ignorance and carelessness and sin.

AN EPISTLE.

17. Michael Angelo died, 1564.

I will pass by, and see their happiness,
And envy none - being just as great no doubt,
Useful to men, and dear to God, as they!

PIPPA PASSES.

18. George Peabody, 1795.

One cannot judge

Of what has been the ill and well of life,

The day that one is dying

sorrows change

Into not altogether sorrow-like;

I do see strangeness but scarce misery,
Now it is over, and no danger more.

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

19. Copernicus, 1473.

Enough now, if the Right

And Good and Infinite

Be named here, as thou callest thy hand thine own, With knowledge absolute,

Subject to no dispute

From fools that crowded youth, nor let thee feel

alone.

RABBI BEN EZRA.

20. Voltaire, 1694.

Because the very fiends weave ropes of sand
Rather than taste pure hell in idleness.

A FORGIVENESS.

21. John Henry Newman, 1801.

Only grant my soul may carry high through death

her cup unspilled,

I shall boast it mine

...

the balsam, bless each kindly

wrench that wrung

From life's tree its inmost virtue, tapped the root whence pleasure sprung,

Barked the bole, and broke the bough, and bruised the berry, left all grace,

Ashes in death's stern alembic, loosed elixir in its

place.

LA SAISIAZ.

22. Washington, 1732; Lowell, 1819.
God's work, be sure

No more spreads wasted, than falls scant :
He filled, did not exceed, man's want

Of beauty, in this life.

But through

Life pierce- and what has earth to do,
Its utmost beauty's appanage,

With the requirements of next stage?

23. Händel, 1685.

EASTER-DAY.

But priests

Should study passion; how else cure mankind, Who come for help in passionate extremes?

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

24. George William Curtis, 1824.

Wholly distrust they knowledge, then, and trust As wholly love allied to ignorance !

There lies thy truth and safety. Love is praise,

And praise is love!

FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.

25. Sir Christopher Wren died, 1723.

Each chooses, none gainsays

The fancy of his fellow, a paradise for him,

A hell for all beside. You can but crown the brim O'the cup; if it be full, what matters less or

more?

FIFINE AT THE FAIR.

26. Victor Hugo, 1802.

Never enough faith in omnipotence -
Never too much, by parity, of faith

In impuissance, man's - which turns to strength When once acknowledged weakness every way.

FERISHTAH'S FANCIES.

27. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807. Because a man has shop to mind

In time and place, since flesh must live,
Needs spirit lack all life behind,

All stray thoughts, fancies fugitive,
All loves except what trade can give?

28. Michel de Montaigne, 1533.

Once the verse laid on shelf,

SHOP.

The picture turned to wall, the music fled from

Each beauty, born of each, grows clearer and more

clear,

Mine henceforth, ever mine!

29. Rossini, 1792.

FIFINE AT THE FAIR.

How soon a smile of God can change the world! How are we made for happiness - how work Grows play, adversity a winning fight !

IN A BALCONY.