C.

One by one the sands are flowing,
One by one the moments fall;
Some are coming, some are going,
Do not strive to grasp them all.

One by one thy duties wait thee,

Let thy whole strength go to each;

Let no future dreams elate thee,

Learn thou first what these can teach.

One by one bright gifts from heaven,
Joys, are sent thee here below;
Take them readily when given,
Ready too, to let them go.

One by one thy griefs shall meet thee,
Do not fear an armèd band;
One will fade as others greet thee,
Shadows passing through the land.

Do not look at life's long sorrow,
See how small each moment's pain;
God will help thee for to-morrow,
Every day begin again.

c.

Do not linger with regretting,
Or for passion's hours despond;
Nor the daily toil forgetting,
Look too eagerly beyond,

Hours are golden links, God's token,
Reaching heaven; but one by one;
Take them, lest the chain be broken

Ere life's pilgrimage be done.

Christian Treasury

6.

Thou hast a friend that's false

-Oh, he's a summer insect,

And loves the sunshine; on his gilded wings
While the scales waver, he'll fly doubtful round,
And sing his flatteries to two alike;

The scales once fixed, he'll settle on the winner,
And swear his prayers drew down the victory.

Young.

7.

If we may trust the flattering eye of sleep,
Your dreams presage some joyful news at hand.

8.

Shakspeare.

That you assume reserve, gravity, and silence, to gain credit for that sense and information which you are con

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scious you do not possess; and that you are like the poor and vain man, who places strong padlocks on his trunks, so that the visitor may suppose they contain valuable articles, though he knows himself they are quite empty.

9.

G. You are in love! 'Tis proved by fifty things,
And first and foremost, you deny it, sir,-
A certain sign; and other things betray,
As dullness, moodiness, moroseness, shyness,
A lover is the dullest thing on earth,
I'd stake my credit on this single fact;
Who but a lover-or his antipodes,
A wise man-ever found out that the use
Of his tongue was to hold it?

You're in love!

L.-Thy heart, wrung by sorrow, and outraged by those it has loved, is perishing beneath the torture, or as a resource, will petrify beneath the dripping well of life!

Mrs. Ellis.

10.

G.-Be not too ready to condemn

The wrongs thy brothers may have done;
Ere ye too harshly censure them

For human faults, ask-"Have I none ?"
Eliza Cook.

L.-Life's sunniest hours are not without

The shadow of some lingering doubt;

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Amid its brightest joys will steal
pectres of evil yet to feel-

Its warmest love is blent with fears,
Its confidence a trembling one,

Its smile the harbinger of tears,
Its hope the change of April's sun!
A weary lot-in mercy given

To fit the chastened soul for heaven.

Whittier.

11.

Unutterable happiness-which love
Alone bestows, and on a favored few.

12.

This shall be granted-that your means shall lie
Too low for envy, for contempt too high;
Some honor you shall have,

Not from great deeds-but good alone;
The unknown are better than ill known;
Rumor can ope the grave;

Acquaintance you shall have, such as depends
Not on the number, but the choice of friends.

Cowley.

13.

'Tis not in mortals to command success;

But all may do what's better-may deserve it!

Addison.

C.

Ever constant, ever true,

Let the word be, No surrender;
Boldly dare, and greatly do;

This shall bring you bravely through;
No surrender, no surrender!
Though the skies be overcast,
And upon the sleety blast,
Disappointments gather fast,

Beat them off with, No surrender!

Constant and courageous still,

Mind, the word is, No surrender !
Battle, though it be up-hill;
Stagger not at seeming ill,

No surrender, no surrender!
Hope-and thus your hope fulfill-
There's a way where there's a will,
And the way all cares to kill

Is to give them-No surrender!

14.

Tupper.

Let not one look of Fortune cast you down;
She were not Fortune if she did not frown;
Such as do braveliest bear her scorns awhile,
Are those on whom at last she most will smile.
Lord Orrery.

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G. You'll meet her at a country ball;

There where the sound of flute and fiddle