tion of the enlightened statesman

A Veritable Poem of Poems

Mrs H A Deming of San Francisco is

said to have occupied a year in hunting up

and fitting together the following thirty

eight lines from thirty eight English poets

The names of the authors are given below

1—Why all this toll lor triumphs oftm hour

2—Lile s a short summer man a flower

8—jjy turns we catch the vital breath auu

die

4—lhe cradle and the tomb alas so nigh

B—To he ia better far than not to be

6—lhoughall man s life may seem atragedy

7—But light cares speak when mighty cares

are dumb

8—lhe bottom is but shallow whence they

come

P—Your fate Is hut the common late of all

10—Unmingled joys here to no man befall

11—Nature to each allots his proper sphere

12—Fortune makes folly her peculiar care

13—Custom does often reason overrule

14—And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool

15—Livo well how long or short permit to

heaven

16—They who forgive most shall be most for

given

17—Sin may be clasped so close we can not see

Its face—

Vile intercourse where virtue has not place

lfl Then keep each passion down however

dear •

2C—Thou pendulnm betwixt a smile and tear

21—Her sensual snares let faithless pleasure

lay

52—With craft and skill to ruin and betray

23 Soar not too high to fall but stop to rise

24«— we masters grow of all that we despise

2E—O then renounce that Impious self esteem

86—Blclies have wings and grandeur Is a dream

27—Think not ambition wise because tis brave

5g Xlie poth of glory leads but to the grave

Se—What Is ambition Tig a glorious elieat

80—Only destructive to the brave and great

31—What s all the gaudy glitter of a crown

32—The way to bliss lies not on beds of down

53—How long we live not yoars but actions

31—That man lives twice who lives tho first

life well „

35—Make then while yet ye may your Uod

•your friend

36—Whom Christians worship yet not compre-

hend

37—The trust that s giveh guard and to your-

self be just

88—For live we how we can yet dio we must

J Young 2 Dr Johnson 3 l ope 4 Prior

5 Sewcll 6 Spenser 7 Daniel 8 air Walter

lialel h 9 Longfellow 10 Southwell 11 Con

greve 12 Churchill 13 Rochester 14 Arm-

strong 15 Milton 10 Baily 17 Tench 18 Som

ervllle 19 Thomson 20 Byron 21 Smollett

22 Crabbe 23 Massinger 24 Crowley 25 Beat

tie 26 Cow per 27 Sir Walter Davenant 8

Grav 29 Willis 30 Addison 31 Dryden 32

ncis Quarles 33 Watkins 34 Ilcrrlck 35