9. Schiller died, 1805.

But love is the everspringing fountain:
Man may enlarge or narrow its bed
For the water's play, but the water-head
How can he multiply or reduce it?

God's finger marks distinctions, all so fine, We would confound - the Lesser has its use, Which, when it apes the Greater is foregone,

12. Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1828.

LURIA.

I did for once see right, do right, give tongue The adequate protest : for a worm must turn If it would have its wrong observed by God.

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

13. Alphonse Daudet, 1840.

God! Thou art Love! I build my faith on that!
I know thee, thou hast kept my path and made
Light for me in the darkness

tempering sorrow, So that it reached me like a solemn joy:

It were too strange that I should doubt thy love.

14. Lord Macartney, 1737.

Ten men love what I hate,

PARACELSUS.

Shun what I follow, slight what I receive;

Ten, who in ears and eyes

Match me; we all surmise,

They, this thing, and I, that; whom shall my soul believe?

RABBI BEN EZRA.

15. Edmund Kean died, 1833.

Make for port,

Crowd sail, crack cordage! And your cargo be

A polished presence, a genteel manner, wit

At will, and tact at every pore

of you

!

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

16. William H. Seward, 1801.

Prayers move God; threats, and nothing else move

men!

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

17. Dr. Edward Jenner, 1749.

Let Spring come: why, a man salutes her thus :

Dance, yellows and whites and reds
Lead your gay orgy, leaves, stalks, heads
Astir with the wind in the tulip-beds!

There's sunshine: scarcely a wind at all
Disturbs starved grass and daisies small
On a certain mound by a churchyard wall.

Daisies and grass be my heart's bedfellows
On the mound wind spares and sunshine mellows :
Dance you, reds and whites and yellows.

PARLEYINGS.

18. Don Carlos relinquishes crown of Spain, 1845. If we could wait! The only fault's with Time : All men become good creatures, but so slow!

LURIA.

19. Hawthorne died, 1864.

We are not babes, but know the minute's worth, And feel that life is large and the world small, So, wait till life have passed from out the world.

THE RING AND THE BOOK.

20. John Stuart Mill, 1806.

Was this true ?'

Could man indeed avail, mere praise of his,
To help by rapture God's own rapture too,
Thrill with a heart's red tinge that pure pale bliss?

21. John Hookham Frere, 1769.

How inexhaustibly the spirit grows!

EPILOGUE.

One object, she seemed erewhile born to reach
With her whole energies and die content,

So like a wall at the world's end it stood,
With nought beyond to live for, - is it reached?
Already are new undreamed energies
Outgrowing under and extending further
To a new object; there's another world!

22. Richard Wagner, 1813.

I took you

how could I otherwise?
For a world to me, and more ;
For all, love greatens and glorifies
Till God's a-glow, to the loving eyes
In what was mere earth before.

LURIA.

JAMES LEE'S WIFE.

23. Thomas Hood, 1798.

Respect all such as sing when all alone.

PARACELSUS.

24. Queen Victoria, 1819.

A breath of God made manifest in flesh
Subjects the world to change from time to time;
Alters the whole conditions of our race
Abruptly, not by unperceived degrees,
Nor play of elements already there,
But quite new leaven, leavening the lump,
And liker, so, the natural process.

PRINCE HOHENSTIEL SCHWANGAU.

25. Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803.

There is a vision in the heart of each
Of justice, mercy, wisdom; tenderness
To wrong and pain, and knowledge of its cure
And these, embodied in a woman's form

That best transmits them, pure as first received,
From God above her, to mankind below.

COLOMBE'S BIRTHDAY.

26. Count Zinzendorf, 1700.

There is

Heaven, since there is Heaven's simulation — earth; I sit possessed in patience : prison-roof

Shall break one day and Heaven beam over-head!

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