A REMARKABLE POEM

Made Up of Quotations From Thirty eight

of the Leading Poets

The following very remarkable little

poem is a contribution from the pen of

Mrs H A Deming The reader will

see that each line is a quotation from one

of the standard authors of England and

America This is the result of a year s

laborious search among the voluminous

writings of 38 leading poets of the past

and present The number of each line

refers to its author below

LIFE

J Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour

2 Life’s a short summer man a flower

By turns we catch the vital breath find die

4 The cradle and the tomb alas so nigh

5 To be is better far than not to be

Though all men’s life may seem a tragedy

7 But light cares speak when mighty griefs

are dumb

8 The bottom is but shallow whence they

come

9 Your fate is but the common fate of all

10 L’nmiugled joys here no man can befall

11 Nature to each allots its proper sphere

12 Fort une makes folly her peculiar care

» Custom does often reason overrule

14 And throw a cruel sunshine ou a fool

15 Live well how lbng or short permit to

heaven

16 They who forgive most shall be most for-

given

17 Sin may bo clasped so close we cannot see

its face—

18 Vile intercourse where virtue lias no place

39 Then keep each passion down however dear

20 Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and a tear

21 Her sensual snares let faithless pleasure

lay

22 With craft and skill to ruin and betray

83 Soar not too high to fall but stoop to rise

24 We masters grow of all that we despise

25 Oh then renounce that impious self esteem

20 Riches have wings and grandeur is a dream

27 Thiuk not ambition wise because ’tis brave

28 The puths of glory lead hut to the grave

20 What is ambition ’Tis a glorious cheat

80 Only destructive to the brave and great

31 What’s all the gaudy glitter of a crown

82 The wav of bliss lies not on beds of down

18 How long wo live not years but actions

i tell—

Sti That man lives twice who lives the first life

well

35 Make then while yet ye may your God

your friend

30 Whom Christians worship yet not compre-

hend

37 The trust that’s given guard and to your-

self be just

38 For live we how we can but die we must

1 Young 2 Dr Johnson 3 Pope 4 Pry-

or 5 Sew’ell 0 Spenser 7 Daniel 8 Sir

Walter Scott it Longfellow 10 Southwell

11 Congreve 12 Churchill 13 Rochester

14 Armstrong 15 Milton 16 Bailey 17

Trench 18 Somerville 19 Thompson 20

Byron 21 Smollett 22 Crabbe 23 Mas-

singer 24 Crowley 25 Beattie 26 Cowper

27 Sir Walter Davenant 28 Gray 29 Wil-

lis 30 Addison 31 Dryden 33 Francis

Charles 33 Watkins 34 Herrick 35 Wil-

liam Mason 36 PilL 37 Dana 38 Shake-

speare