LIFE ■M

The following remarkable compilation Is a contn

butioh to the Hon Frtmcltco Times from the pen of

Mrs H A Demlng The reader will notice that each

i» „ I line is a quolaiiolf fl orn some Of the standard au

Editor and rpoprieior thors of England and America This is the result of

a year s laborious search among the leading poets of

— 11 a ycur s laoorious searcn ai

W N NORTON Awwiate Ed 0 the past and present time

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THE HOUR QUEJ

Why all this toll for triumphs of an hour •

young

Life s « short summer man a flower Dr Johnson

By turns we catch the vital breath and die— J ope

The cradle and the tomb alas so t gh Prior

To be is better far than not to be SeuxU

Though all man s life may seem a tragedy bpeiiser

Bnt light caree speak when mighty griefs are dum

JktnieU

The bottom is bnt shallow whence they come

Raleigh

Vour fhte Is but the common fate of all Lovifrlloio

Unmiugled Joys Ivtre to no mail befall Southwell

Nature to each allots his proper sphere Congreve

Fortune makes folly her peculiar care Churchill

Custom does often reason overrule ll trhexttr

And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool Armstrong

Uve well how loug or short permit to beave i

MiUon

They who forgive most shall be most forgiven Bailey

Sin may be clasped so close we caunot see Its face

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Vile Intercourse where virtue has no place •Somerville

Then keep each passion down however dear Thornton

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear Myron

Her seusual snares let faithless Pleasure lay

•Smollett

With craft and skill to ruin and betray Crabbe

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When Northern Republican papers

talk of a Republican boom in the South Hoar not too high to fall but stoop to rise

we would mildiy ask thern to put their v e masters grow of all that we despise Cowley

finger 011 it If they class he election of Then 1 renounce that impious self esteem

■ I I • 1 I • Mrattle

a lifelong opponent to Republicanism a have wings and grandeur is a dream