4 tr Let us behold some spot where man Has not yet set his bar and ban." | Leave us some green wastes, [fresh and wild. [ For poor man's beast, and poor man's child. 3 4 PARTING. The true sadness of parting is not in the pain of separating; it is the when and the how you are to meet again with the face about to vanish from your view. From the passionate farewell. to the friendly good-bye, a chord, stronger or weaker, is snapped asunder in every parting. Meet again you may; but will it be in the same circumstances? with the same sympathies? with the same sentiments? 28 3 4 Will the souls, now hurrying on in diverse paths unite once more, as if the interval had been a dream? Rarely, oh, rarely. PRAYER.-N. P. Willis. 3 1 Oh! when the heart is full--when bitter thoughts Come crowding thickly up for utterance,— Exp And the poor common words of courtesy 3 e Are such a very mockery-how much The bursting heart may pour itself in prayer. PROSPERITY. 4 There is ever a certain languor attending the fulness of pros 3 perity. When the heart has no more to wish, it... yawns over its possessions, and the energy of the soul goes out, like a flame that has no more to devour. Bid physicians talk our veins to temper, And with an argument | new-set a pulse :— Then think, [my lord, [of reasoning into love. REFLECTION. He that would pass the latter part of his life with honour and decency, must, when he is young, consider that he shall one day be old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young. 3 4 SIGNS OF LOVE.- - Dryden. I find she loves him much, [because she hides it. | Love teaches cunning even to innocence; And, where he gets possession, his first work 5 v :. .1 Tell me not of rights-talk not of the property of the planter in his slaves—I deny the right, I acknowledge not the property. The principles, the feelings of our common nature rise in rebellion against it. 3 3 m 3 m I felt a sudden tightness, grasp my throat... Exp When...my good father...shed his blessing on me: ... I hate to weep, and so I came away. STAIRS TO MARRIAGE.- Shakespeare. 3 5 p Im Your brother and my sister no sooner met but they... looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they ... e.q 4 sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; e ch no sooner knew the reason, but they... sought the remedy: and in these degrees they have made a pair of stairs to marriage. 3 4 3 SYMPATHY.-S. T. Coleridge. He that works me good with unmoved face, Does it but half: he chills me while he aids,— My benefactor, [not my brother man. 3 m SYMPATHY.— ·Shakespeare. 1 զ Thy heart is big: get thee apart and weep. 3 sym Passion, I see, | is catching; for mine eyes, [Seeing those beads of sorrow stand in thine | tr Begin...to... water. TEARS.-Byron. Hide thy tears 3 1 st 1 -2e I do not bid thee not to shed them: 'twere Easier to stop Euphrates at its source, Than one tear of a true and tender heart; But... let me not behold them, tr ་ they unman me. 3 2 3 TIME. Carlos Wilcox. Time well employed is Satan's deadliest foe: It leaves no opening for the lurking fiend : e q Life it imparts to watchfulness and prayer,— [Statues, without it, in the form of guards. 3 TRUE COURAGE.-Baillie. The brave man is not he who feels no fear, [For that were stupid and irrational; | But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from, 2 ch 4 e As for your youth, whom blood and blows delight, 2 ch Away with them! there is not in their crew One valiant spirit. TEACHERS. Nothing stifles knowledge more than covering every thing 2 with a doctor's robe; and the men who would be for ever teaching, are great hindrances to learning. THE FALLING LEAF.-. As the light leaf, [whose fall, to ruin bears > ༡ ་ The mighty forest... reckless what is gone!— 28 3 Such is man's doom-and, [ere an hour be flown, | 4e. Reflect, thou trifler such may be thine own! WISDOM OF THE DEITY.-Dr. Dick. The astonishing multiplicity of created beings, the wonderful laws of nature, the beautiful arrangement of the heavenly bodies. the elegance of the vegetable world, the operations of animal life, and the amazing harmony of the whole creation, loudly proclaim the wisdom of the Diety. |