1. William Dean Howells, 1837.

Everywhere

I see in the world the intellect of man,
That sword, the energy his subtle spear,
The knowledge which defends him like a shield
Everywhere; but they make not up, I think,
The marvel of a soul like thine, earth's flower
She holds up to the softened gaze of God!

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

2. Pope Leo XIII., 1810.

Be sure that God

Ne'er dooms to waste the strength He deigns impart !

Ask the gier-eagle why she stoops at once

Into the vast and unexplored abyss,

What full-grown power informs her from the first,
Why she not marvels, strenuously beating
The silent boundless regions of the sky!
Be sure they sleep not whom God needs.

3. Edmund Waller, 1606.

PARACELSUS.

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed
As, God be thanked, I do not!

THE INN ALBUM.

4. Flora Macdonald died, 1790.

In this world, who can do a thing, will not ;
And who would do it, cannot, I perceive;

Yet the will's somewhat - somewhat too the

power

And thus we half men struggle. At the end,
God, I conclude, compensates, punishes.

ANDREA DEL SARTO.

5. James Madison, 1751.

If you loved only what were worth your love, Love were clear gain and wholly well for you: Make the low nature better for your throes! Give earth yourself, go up for gain above!

JAMES LEE'S WIFE.

6. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, 1809. Never may I commence my song, my due To God who best taught song by gift of thee, Except with bent head and beseeching handThat still, despite the distance and the dark, What was, again may be ; some interchange Of grace, some splendor once thy very thought, Some benediction anciently thy smile.

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

7. Sir Edwin Landseer, 1802.

For unsuccess, explain it how you will,
Disqualifies you, makes you doubt yourself,

-Much more, is found decisive by your friends.

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

8. A. H. Layard, 1817.

Therefore to whom turn I but to thee the ineffable Name ?

Builder and Maker, thou, of houses not made with

hands!

What, have fear of change from thee who art ever the same?

Doubt that thy power can fill the heart that thy power expands?

There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before.

9. William Cobbett, 1762.

ABT VOGLER.

As we broke up that old faith of the world,
Have we, next age, to break up this the new
Faith, in the thing, grown faith in the report—
Whence need to bravely disbelieve report
Through increased faith in thing reports belie?
Correct the portrait by the living face,

Man's God by God's God in the mind of man?

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

10. William Etty, 1787.

What right have you to set

The thoughtless foot upon her life and mine,
And then say, as we perish, " Had I thought
All had gone otherwise."

A BLOT IN THE 'SCUTCHEON.

11. Torquato Tasso, 1544.

What is it, at last,

But selfishness without example? None
Could trace God's will so plain as you, while
Remained implied in it; but now you fail,
And we, who prate about that will, are fools!
In short, God's service is established here
As He determines fit, and not your way,
And this you cannot brook! Such discontent
Is weak. Renounce all creatureship at once!
Affirm an absolute right to have and use

yours

Your energies; as though the rivers should say
"We rush to the ocean; what have we to do
With feeding streamlets, lingering in the vales,
Sleeping in lazy pools ?"

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12. Bishop Berkeley, 1684.

PARACELSUS.

But shop each day and all day long!
Friend, your good angel slept, your star
Suffered eclipse, fate did you wrong!
From where these sorts of treasures are,
There should our hearts be-Christ, how far!

13. Joseph Priestley, 1733.

SHOP.

God be thanked, the meanest of his creatures Boasts two soul sides, one to face the world with, One to show a woman when he loves her.

ONE WORD MORE.

14. Robert Owen, 1771.

There shall never be one lost good! What was shall live as before :

The evil is null, is nought, is silence implying sound: What was good, shall be good, with, for evil, so much good more :

On the earth the broken arcs; in the heaven, a perfect round.

15. Andrew Jackson, 1767.

And just because I was thrice as old,

ABT VOGLER.

And our paths in the world diverged so wide,
Each was nought to each, must I be told?
We were fellow mortals, nought beside?

EVELYN HOPE.

16. Caroline L. Herschel, 1750.

No, indeed! for God above

Is mighty to grant, as mighty to make,
And creates the love to reward the love;
I claim you still, for my own love's sake.

17. Madame Roland, 1754.

Echoes die off, scarcely reverberate
Forever,

EVELYN HOPE.

why should ill keep echoing ill

And never let our ears have done with noise?

THE RING AND THE BOOK.