Thou large-brain'd woman and large-hearted man.

By thunders of white silence.

To George Sand. A Desire.

Hiram Powers's Greek Slave.

And that dismal cry rose slowly
And sank slowly through the air,
Full of spirit's melancholy

And eternity's despair;

And they heard the words it said,
"Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!
Pan, Pan is dead!"1

Death forerunneth Love to win
"Sweetest eyes were ever seen.'

The Dead Pan.

Catarina to Camoens. ix.

She has seen the mystery hid
Under Egypt's pyramid:
By those eyelids pale and close
Now she knows what Rhamses knows.

But so fair,

Little Mattie. Stanza ii.

She takes the breath of men away

Who gaze upon her unaware.

Bianca among the Nightingales. xii.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,

And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,

A gauntlet with a gift in 't.

Aurora Leigh. Book ii.

The growing drama has outgrown such toys

Of simulated stature, face, and speech :

It also peradventure may outgrow

The simulation of the painted scene,

Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume,
And take for a worthier stage the soul itself,
Its shifting fancies and celestial lights,

With all its grand orchestral silences

To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds.

Book v.

1 Thamus. . . uttered with a loud voice his message, "The great Pan

is dead." - PLUTARCH: Why the Oracles cease to give Answers.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN. 1809-1865.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. Speech, June 16, 1858.

Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us dare to do our duty as we understand it. Address, New York City, Feb. 21, 1859.

In giving freedom to the slave we assure freedom to honorable alike in what we give and what we Second Annual Message to Congress, Dec. 1, 1862.

the free, preserve.

That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.1

Speech at Gettysburg, Nov. 19, 1863.

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.2 Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1865.

CHARLES DARWIN. 1809-1882.

I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection. The Origin of Species. Chap. iii.

We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

Ibid.

The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.1

1 See Daniel Webster, page 532.

Ibid.

2 See J. Q. Adams, page 458.

3 The perpetual struggle for room and food. — MALTHUS: On Population, chap. iii. p. 48 (1798).

4 This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection, or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life."-- - HERBERT SPENCER: Principles of Biology. Indirect Equilibration.

ALFRED TENNYSON. 1809-.

(From the edition of 1884.)

To the Queer.

This laurel greener from the brows
Of him that utter'd nothing base.
And statesmen at her council met
Who knew the seasons, when to take
Occasion by the hand, and make
The bounds of freedom wider yet.
Broad based upon her people's will,
And compassed by the inviolate sea.
For it was in the golden prime
Of good Haroun Alraschid.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Recollections of the Arabian Nights.

Dowered with the hate of hate, the scorn of scorn,

With one long kiss my whole soul through
My lips, as sunlight drinketh dew.1

Fatima. Stanza 3.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control,-
These three alone lead life to sovereign power.

Because right is right, to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
I built my soul a lordly pleasure-house,
Wherein at ease for aye to dwell.

Enone.

Ibid.

The Palace of Art.

Her manners had not that repose
Which stamps the caste of Vere de Vere.

Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Stanza 5.

1 See Marlowe, page 41.

From yon blue heaven above us bent,
The grand old gardener and his wife1
Smile at the claims of long descent.

Lady Clara Vere de Vere. Stanza 7.

Howe'er it be, it seems to me,

'Tis only noble to be good.2
Kind hearts are more than coronets,

And simple faith than Norman blood.

Ibid.

You must wake and call me early, call me early, mother

dear;

To-morrow 'll be the happiest time of all the glad New

Of all the glad New Year, mother, the maddest, merriest

day;

For I'm to be Queen o' the May, mother, I'm to be queen The May Queen.

o' the May.

Ah, why

Should life all labour be?

The Lotus-Eaters. iv.

A daughter of the gods, divinely tall,
And most divinely fair.3

A Dream of Fair Women. Stanza xxii.

God gives us love. Something to love
He lends us; but when love is grown
To ripeness, that on which it throve

Falls off, and love is left alone.

Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace!
Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul,

While the stars burn, the moons increase,
And the great ages onward roll.

1 This line stands in Moxon's edition of 1842,

"The gardener Adam and his wife,"

and has been restored by the author in his edition of 1873.

2 See Chapman, page 37.

8 See Pope, page 340.

To J. S.

Ibid.

Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet!
Nothing comes to thee new or strange.
Sleep full of rest from head to feet;

Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.

To J. S.

More black than ash-buds in the front of March.
The Gardener's Daughter.

Of love that never found his earthly close,
What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts;
Or all the same as if he had not been?

The long mechanic pacings to and fro,
The set, gray life, and apathetic end.

Love and Duty.

Ah, when shall all men's good
Be each man's rule, and universal peace
Lie like a shaft of light across the land,
And like a lane of beams athwart the sea,
Thro' all the circle of the golden year?

I am a part of all that I have met.1

Ibid.

The Golden Year.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use,
As tho' to breathe were life!

It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles,
And see the great Achilles whom we knew.
Here at the quiet limit of the world.

Ulysses.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Tithonus.

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd

dove;

In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. Locksley Hall. Line 19.

Love took up the harp of Life, and smote on all the chords with might;

Smote the chord of Self, that, trembling, pass'd in music. out of sight.

1 See Byron, page 543.

Line 33.