God moves in a mysterious way Light shining out of Darkness. Behind a frowning providence He hides a shining face. Beware of desperate steps! The darkest day, Ibid. The Needless Alarm. Moral. Oh that those lips had language! Life has pass'd On the Receipt of my Mother's Picture. The son of parents pass'd into the skies. Ibid. The man that hails you Tom or Jack, Is such a friend that one had need A worm is in the bud of youth, Toll for the brave! On Friendship, Stanzas subjoined to a Bill of Mortality. The brave that are no more! On the Loss of the Royal George. There is a bird who by his coat, And by the hoarseness of his note, Might be supposed a crow. The Jackdaw. (Translation from Vincent Bourne.) 1 See Young, page 312. 2 Var. How he esteems your merit. He sees that this great roundabout Its customs and its businesses, And says what says he? - Caw. The Jackdaw. (Translation from Vincent Bourne.) For 't is a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it come to light, In every cranny but the right. He that holds fast the golden mean,1 And lives contentedly between The little and the great, The Retired Cat. Feels not the wants that pinch the poor, Nor plagues that haunt the rich man's door. Translation of Horace. Book ii. Ode x. But strive still to be a man before your mother.2 Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii. ERASMUS DARWIN. 1731-1802. Soon shall thy arm, unconquer'd steam! afar The Botanic Garden. Part i. Canto i. Line 289. No radiant pearl which crested Fortune wears, Part ii. Canto iii. Line 459. 1 Keep the golden mean. - PUBLIUS SYRUS: Maxim 1072. 2 See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 199. BEILBY PORTEUS. 1731-1808. In sober state, Through the sequestered vale of rural life, The venerable patriarch guileless held One murder made a villain, Millions a hero. Princes were privileged Death. Line 108. To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime." Line 154. War its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands. Line 178. Teach him how to live, And, oh still harder lesson! how to die. Line 316. GEORGE WASHINGTON. 1732-1799. Labour to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, conscience. Rule from the Copy-book of Washington when a schoolboy. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace. Speech to both Houses of Congress, Jan. 8, 1790. 'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world. 1 See Gray, page 385. 2 See Young, page 311. 8 See Tickell, page 313. His Farewell Address. 4 Qui desiderat pacem præparet bellum (Who would desire peace should be prepared for war). VEGETIUS: Rei Militari 3, Prolog. In pace, ut sapiens, aptarit idonea bello (In peace, as a wise man, he should make suitable preparation for war. - HORACE: Book ii. satire ii. LORD THURLOW. 1732-1806. The accident of an accident. Speech in Reply to the Duke of Grafton. Butler's When I forget my sovereign, may my God forget me.1 JOHN DICKINSON. 1732-1808. Then join in hand, brave Americans all! Our cause is just, our union is perfect. The Liberty Song (1768). Declaration on taking up Arms in 1775.2 W. J. MICKLE. 1734-1788. The dews of summer nights did fall, And many an oak that grew thereby. For there's nae luck about the house, 66 Cumnor Hall. 1 Whereupon Wilkes is reported to have said, somewhat coarsely, but not unhappily it must be allowed, Forget you! He'll see you d-d first." Burke also exclaimed, "The best thing that could happen to you!"- BROUGHAM: Statesmen of the Time of George III. (Thurlow.) 2 From the original manuscript draft in Dickinson's handwriting, which has given rise to the belief that he, not Jefferson (as formerly claimed), is the real author of this sentence. 8 Jove, thou regent of the skies. - POPE: The Odyssey, book ii. line 42. Now Cynthia, named fair regent of the night. - GAY: Trivia, book iii. And hail their queen, fair regent of the night. - DARWIN: The Botanic Garden, part i. canto ii. line 90. There's little pleasure in the house His very foot has music in 't As he comes up the stairs. The Mariner's Wife.1 JOHN LANGHORNE. 1735-1779. Cold on Canadian hills or Minden's plain, Ibid. The Country Justice. Part i. ISAAC BICKERSTAFF. 1735-1787. Hope! thou nurse of young desire. Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 1. There was a jolly miller once, Lived on the river Dee; He worked and sung from morn till night: Sc. 2. And this the burden of his song Forever used to be, I care for nobody, no, not I, If no one cares for me.3 Ibid. "The Mariner's Wife " is now given" by common consent," says Sarah Tytler, to Jean Adam (1710–1765). 2 This allusion to the dead soldier and his widow on the field of battle was made the subject of a print by Bunbury, under which were engraved the pathetic lines of Langhorne. Sir Walter Scott has mentioned that the only time he saw Burns this picture was in the room. Burns shed tears over it; and Scott, then a lad of fifteen, was the only person present who could tell him where the lines were to be found. - LOCKHART: Life of Scott, vol. i. chap. iv. 3 If naebody care for me, I'll care for naebody. BURNS: I hae a Wife o' my Ain. |