the flower

Nor see the swallow soar

Around the hoary tower

Norths shrieking swifts devour

The distance in their plays

Tis now the voiceless hour

Of Autumn days

A POETICAL MELANGE

The following poem Is composed of quota-

tions from thirty eight different authors

each of the thirty eight lines being a distinct

quotation as will be seen by reference to the

foot note appended LIKE

I Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour

g Life s a short summer man a flower

3 By turnB we catch the vital breath and die—

4 The cradle and the tomb alas 60 nigh

5 To be is better far than not to be

i Though all man’s lile seems 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 hut the common fate of all I

10 Unminglcd Joys here to no man fall

11 Nature to each allots his proper sphere

lz JFortune makes folly her peculiar care

13 Custom doeB not often reason overrule

14 And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool

15 Live well how long or short permit to

hi aven

16 They who forgive most shall be most for-

given

17 n may be clasped 60 close we can net see

its lace

18 Vile intercourse where virtue has not place

19 Then keep each passion dowm however dear

30 Thou pendulum bitwixt a smile and tear

31 Her sensual snares let faithless pleasure lay

23 With craft and skill to ruin and betray

23 Soar not too high to fall but stoop to rise

24 Wc masters grow of all that we despise

25 Oh then renounce that impious self esteem

26 Biches have wings and grandeur is adreanq

27 Think not ambition wise because’tis brave

28 The path of glory leads but to the grave

29 What’s ambition ’Tis a glorious cheat

30 Only destructive to the brave and great

31 What’s all the gaudy glitter of a crown J

32 The way to hlisB lies not on beds of down

33 How long we live not years but actions tell

34 That man lives twice who lives the flrst life

well

35 Make then while yet you may your God

your friend

36 Whom Christians worship yet notcompre

heud

37 The trust that’s given guard and to yourself

be just

38 For live we how we can die we must

1m wai v rich u Croesus and would

die if I didn t have him Now if von

have exhausted the ma