MATTHEW ARNOLD. 1822-1888. Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Strew on her roses, roses, And never a spray of yew! In quiet she reposes; Ah, would that I did too! To hear the world applaud the hollow ghost Which blamed the living man. Time may restore us in his course Shakespeare Requiescat Growing Old Memorial Verses. Wandering between two worlds, — one dead, Stanzas from the Grande Chartreuse. The kings of modern thought are dumb. Ibid. Philistine must have originally meant, in the mind of those who invented the nickname, a strong, dogged, unenlightened opponent of the children of the light. Essays in Criticism. Heinrich Heine. There is no better motto which it [culture] can have than these words of Bishop Wilson, "To make reason and the will of God prevail." Culture and Anarchy. P. 8. RUTHERFORD B. HAYES. 1822- He serves his party best who serves the country best.1 Inaugural Address, March 5, 1877 1 See Pope, page 339. LEONARD HEATH. On a lone barren isle, where the wild roaring billows Like fond weeping mourners, lean over his grave. The Grave of Bonaparte. No more on thy steed wilt thou sweep o'er the plain: Thou sleep'st thy last sleep, thou hast fought thy last battle, No sound can awake thee to glory again. Ibid. 1 This song was composed and set to music, about 1842, by Leonard Heath, of Nashua, who died a few years ago. Hampshire, 1883, p. 760. - BELA CHAPIN: The Poets of New In winter, when the dismal rain And Wind, that grand old harper, smote Ibid. A poem round and perfect as a star. Ibid A H. F. CHORLEY. 1831-1872. song to the oak, the brave old oak, The Brave Old Oak. Then here's to the oak, the brave old oak, 1 Two hands upon the breast, and labour is past. — Russian Proverb. Ibid ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN. 1832-. Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight! Rock me to sleep Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil and of tears, Toil without recompense, tears all in vain! Take them, and give me my childhood again! Ibid. BISHOP HENRY C. POTTER. 1835- We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity. Address at the Washington Centennial Service in If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent,a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the circle of its influence they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue. Ibid. FRANCIS M. FINCH. Under the sod and the dew, Love and tears for the Blue, The Blue and the Gray 1 This poem first appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly." GROVER CLEVELAND. 1837 After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. Message, March 1, 1886. It is a condition which confronts us—not a theory.1 Annual Message, 1887. I have considered the pension list of the republic a roll of honor. Veto of Dependent Pension Bill, July 5, 1888 Party honesty is party expediency. Interview in New York Commercial Advertiser, Sept. 19, 1889. |