the
following thirty eight lines from
thirty-eight English poets: 1. Why all
this toil for triumphs of an hour P 2.
Life is a short summer, man's a flower,
3. By turns we catoh the vital breath
and die, 4. The cradle and the tomb,
alas' so nigh 5. To be is better far
than not to be, • 6. Though all man's
life may seem a tragedy ; 7. But light
cares speak when mifnit • cares are
dumb, 8. The bottom is but shallow
whonce they come. !). Your fate is the
common fate of all • 10. Umningled joys
here to no man befall, 11. Nature to
each allots his prope:-sphere, 12.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care,
13. Custom does often reason overrule
14. And throw a cruel sunshine on a
fool. 15. Live well, how long or short
permit to heaven, 36. They who forgive
most shall be most forgiven. 17. Sin may
be clasped so close we cannot see its
faec— 18. Vile intercourse where virtue
has not place; 19. Then keep each
passion down, however dear: 20. Thou
pendulum betwixt a smile and tear; • 21.
Her sensual snai-es let faithless
pleasures lay 22. With craft and skill
to ruin and betray. 23. Soar not too
high to fall, but stoop to rise, 24. We
masters grow of all that we despise. 25.
Oh! then re.iounoe that impious self-
esteem: 26. Riches have wings, and
grandeur is a dream. 27. Think not
ambition wise because 'tis brave, 28.
The path of glory leads but to the
grave. 29. What is ambition? 'Tis a
glorious cheat, 30. Only destructive to
the brave and 31. What's all the gaudy
glitter of a crown? 32. The way to bliss
lies not on beds of down. 33. How long
we live, not years, but aclions, tell:
34. That man lives twice who lives the
first life well. 35. Make then, while
yet ye may, your God your friend. 36.
Whom Christians worship, yet not
comprehend. 37. The trust that's given
YOU, guard, and to yourself be just: 38.
For. live we how wo can, yet die we
must. The following are the names of the
authors:—1, Young: 2. Dr. Johnson : 3,
Pone: 4, Prior; 5, Sewell: 6, Spencer :
7. Daniel: 8. Sir Walter Raleigh : 9,
Longfellow; 10, Southwell; 11, Congrove:
12, Churchill: 13, Rochester; 14.
Armstrong: 1-5, Milton; 16. Bailey; 17,
French; 18, Somerville; 19. Thompson ;
20, Byron: 21, Smollett- 22, Crabbe: 23,
Massinger; 24, Crowlev: 25, Battie: 26.
CWner; 27, Sir Walter Daveimnt: 28.
Gray; 29. Willis; 30, Addison: 31.
Dryden; 32, Francis Ouarles ; 33,
Watkins: 34. Herrick: a*!, William
Mason; 36, Hill: 37, Dana; 38,
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