April II.

April 12.

To think that a beauty so gay,

So kind and so constant would prove ;
Or go clad like our maidens in grey,

Or live in a cottage on love.

So we grew together

Like to a double cherry, seeming parted.

Shakespeare

Rowe.

(Midsummer Night's Dream).

April 14.

O! my love's like a red, red rose,
That's newly sprung in June;
O! my love's like the melodie
'That's sweetly played in tune.

Burns.

Oh! it is great and wise and good to love.

Westland Marston, LL.D.

April 15.

And did'st thou know the comfort of two hearts

In one delicious harmony united,

As to joy one joy, and think both one thought,
Live both one life-and there is double life.

I am happy, I am happy,

As the lilies of the prairie,

George Chapman.

When they feel the dew upon them.

Longfellow

(Song of Hiawatha).

April 14.

April 15.

May never was the month of love,
For May is full of flowers,
But rather April, wet by kind,
For love is full of showers.

Robert Southwell.

He loves command and due restriction,
And she as well likes contradiction.

April 17.

Love me not for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,
Nor for any outward part,
No! nor for my constant heart,
For those may fail or turn to ill,
And thus we, Love, shall sever.

Gay.

Wilbye's Madrigals.

Yet stay, always be chained to my heart
With links of love, that we do never part.
Bateson's Madrigals.

April 18.

There is a grief in every kind of joy,

That is my theme, and that I mean to prove ; And who were he which would not drink annoy To taste thereby the lightest dram of love?

Gascoigne.

What we think in our hearts you may read in our eyes, For, knowing no falsehood, we need no disguise.

Garrick.

April 17.

April 18.