Minutes filled with shadeless gladness, Deep as thoughts of cares for nations, FRANCIS W. BOURDILLON. LIGHT. The night has a thousand eyes, Yet the light of the bright world dies G. LINNEUS BANKS. WHAT I LIVE FOR. I live for those who love me, For all human ties that bind me, I live to learn their story To emulate their glory, And follow in their wake; Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages, The heroic of all ages, Whose deeds crowd History's pages, And Time's great volume make. I live to hold communion With all that is divine, To feel there is a union 'Twixt Nature's heart and mine; To profit by affliction, Reap truth from fields of fiction, And fulfil God's great design. I live for those who love me, For the cause that lacks assistance, EDWARD FALKENER. A GREEK EPIGRAM. On the Statue of a Satyr in Mosaic. SPECTATOR. Satyrs deal in pert grimaces; SATYR. When was such a laughing matter ? When was such a wonder known? All at once I'm grown a Satyr Out of these odd bits of stone! RICHARD GARNETT. THE LYRICAL POEM. Example of an Elegiac Couplet. ANON. From SCHILLER'S THREE WORDS OF BELIEFFREEDOM, VIRTUE, GOD. Though all Things in circle incessantly roll, There endures amid changes a changeless Soul. AUGUSTUS HARE. See Memorials of a Quiet Life. From THE LITTLE ONES. Where does the good God find the days? And what becomes of all the days, AMERICAN POETS. WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT. THE LOVE OF GOD. From the Provençal of Bernard Rascas. All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye. The forms of men shall be as they had never been; The blasted groves shall lose their fresh and tender green. And realms shall be dissolved, and empires be no more, And they shall bow to death, who ruled from shore to shore ; And the great globe itself, so the holy writings tell, With the rolling firmament, where the starry armies dwell, Shall melt with fervent heat-they shall all pass away, Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye. |