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March.

Mindful of disaster past,

And shrinking at the northern blast,
The sleety storm returning still,
The morning hoar and evening chill,
Reluctant comes the timid spring.

THOMAS WARTON.

What man is that?

A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March.

SHAKESPEARE

(Julius Cæsar).

Oh, Lesbia! surely no mortal was ever
So fond of a woman as I am of you;

A youth more devoted, more constant, was never-
To me there's enchantment in all that you do.

Horace.

The people said that she was blue,
But I am green, and love her dearly.
C. S. Calverley.

March 2.

Proud of her wit, and proud of her walk,
Proud of her teeth, and proud of her talk,
Proud of knowing "cheese from chalk"
On a very slight inspection.

J. G. Saxe.

In her what kings, what saints have wish'd is givenHer heart is empire and her love is heaven.

March 3.

Anonymous.

Though fools spurn Hymen's gentle powers,
We, who improve his golden hours,

By sweet experience know

That marriage, rightly understood,
Gives to the tender and the good

A paradise below.

Hail! wedded love,

Perpetual fountain of domestic sweets!

Cotton.

Milton.

March 2.

March 3.

What's female beauty but an air divine
Through which the mind's all-gentle graces shine?
They, like the sun, irradiate all between-
The body charms because the soul is seen.

Young.

For where is any author in the world
Teaches such learning as a woman's eye?

March 5.

Shakespeare

(Love's Labour's Lost).

The time I've lost in wooing,
In watching and pursuing,

The light that lies in woman's eyes
Has been my heart's undoing.

Moore.

Love's doubtless a disease, and may with truth
Be ranked among the maladies of youth.

March 6.

Harrison.

I am ashamed that women are so simple
To offer war when they should kneel for peace,
Or seek for rule, supremacy, and sway,

When they are bound to serve, love, and obey.

Shakespeare

(Taming of the Shrew).

Men who their duties know

But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain.

Sir W. Jones.

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