That sort of new love to enslave me? Mine should have lapped me round from the begin ning; As little fear of losing it as winning ! Lovers grow cold, men learn to hate their wives, And only parents' love can last our lives. 27. George Cruikshank, 1792. PIPPA PASSES. Nay, if you come to that, best love of all Myself? 28. Sir William Jones, 1746. And we shall all be equal at the last, PIPPA PASSES. Or classed according to life's natural ranks, Fathers, sons, brothers, friends—not rich, nor wise, Nor gifted. 29. Horatio Nelson, 1758. He did too many grandnesses, to note PARACELSUS. Much in the meaner things about his path; BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE. SEPTEMBER 30-OCTOBER 2 30. Auguste Comte died, 1857. This filthy rags of speech, this coil Of statement, comment, query and response, Tatters all too contaminate for use, Have no renewing; He the Truth is, too, we men in our degree may know There, simply, instantaneously, as here After long time and amid many lies, Whatever we dare think we know indeed - That I am I, as He is He what else? THE RING AND THE BOOK. OCTOBER 1. Sir Edwin Landseer died, 1873. Nature has time to mend Mistake, she knows occasion will recur 2. Lyman Beecher, 1775. SORDELLO. What but Thy measuring-rod Meted forth heaven and earth? more intimate A match for that divine. Man's wonder? Nowise ! Shall love abate PARLEYINGS. 3. George Bancroft, 1800. Pure faith indeed · you know not what you ask! Naked belief in God the Omnipotent, BISHOP BLOUGRAM'S APOLOGY. 4. Guizot, 1787. You groped your way across my room i'the dear, dark dead of night; At each fresh step a stumble was; but once your lamp alight, Easy and plain you walked again; so soon all wrong grew right! FERISHTAH'S FANCIES. 5. Jonathan Edwards, 1703. Be love your light and trust your guide, with these explore my heart! No obstacle to trip you there, strike hands and souls apart! Since rooms and hearts are furnished so, light FERISHTAH'S FANCIES. shows you, need love start? 6. Jenny Lind, 1821. I looked beyond the world for truth and beauty; Sought, found, and did my duty. FERISHTAH'S FANCIES. 7. Archbishop Laud, 1573. Therefore I summon age To grant youth's heritage, Life's struggle having so far reached its term; A man, for aye removed From the developed brute; a God though in the germ. RABBI BEN EZRA. 8. Philarête Charles, 1798. What, my soul? See thus far and no farther? When doors great and small, Nine-and-ninety flew ope at our touch, should the hundredth appall? In the least things have faith, yet distrust in the greatest of all? Do I find love so full in my nature, God's ultimate gift, That I doubt his own love can compete with it? Here the parts shift? Here the creature surpass the creator, the end, what began? Would I fain in my impotent yearning do all for this man, And dare doubt he alone shall not help him, who yet alone can? 9. Cervantes, 1547. But no good supplants a good, SAUL. Nor beauty undoes beauty. BALAUSTION'S ADVENTURE. 10. Benjamin West, 1738. Who trusts To human testimony for a fact Gets this sole fact — himself is proved a fool; Man's speech being false, if but by consequence Should learn to love what he may speak one day. THE RING AND THE BOOK. 11. Samuel G. Drake, 1798. Grant me (once again) assurance we shall each meet each some day, Walk but with how bold a footstep! on a way · but what a way! Worst were best, defeat were triumph, utter loss were utmost gain. Can it be, and must, and will it ? 12. Hugh Miller, 1802. LA SAISIAZ. Feel how my life broke off from thine, IN THREE DAYS. 13. Battle of Hastings, 1066. All 's right with the world! PIPPA PASSES. |