The following

composite poem is made up of lines from

more tihan thirty different authors,

ingeniously woven into connected

couplets. As will be sees, it includes

lines from Shaklspeare, flerrick,

Milton, Dryden, Pope, Congreve, Quarles,

Young, Crabbe, Gray, Addison. Cowper,

Byron, Longfellow, and a score of other

poets more or less famous. The compiler,

Mrs. H. A. Deming, of fsan Francisco,

has affixed to it the title "Life."

LIFE. Whyy all this: toil for-

triumphs.- of an hour? -Young. Life's a

short summer-man is but a flower. -Dr.

Johnson. By turns we catch the fatal

breath. and die; The cradle and the

tomb, alas, Phow nigh! To be is better-

far than not"to benor. Through all man's

life may seems a tragedy; But light

cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb.

- Daniel. The bottom is but shallow-

whence they come. -Raleigh. Thy fate is

the common fate of alls Unmingled joys

no man befall;onelw. Nature to each

allots his properusphere, Fortune makes

folly her peculiara -Churchill. Custom

does not reason overrule. -Rochester.

And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool.

-Armstrong. Live well; how long or short

permit to heaven. -Milton. They who

forgive most shall be most forgiven.

-Bailey. Sin may be clasped so close we

may not see its face, -French. Vile

intercourse where virtue has no place;

-Somerville. Then keep each passion

down, however dear, -Thompson. Thou

pendulum betwixt a smile and tear!

-Byron. Her sensual snares let faithless

pleasures lay, " -Smollet. With craft

and skill to ruin and betray; -Crabbe.

Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to

rise; -Massinger. We masters grow of all

that we despise. -Crowley. Oh, then,

renounce that impious selfesteem;

-Beattie. Riches have - wings, and

grandeur is a dream. ---Cowper. Think

not ambition wise because 'tis brave,

-Davenant. The paths of glory lead but

to the grave; -Gray. What is ambition?

'Tis a glorious cheat, -Willis. Only

destructive to the brave and great.

-Addison. What's all the gaudy glitter

of a crown? -Dryden. The way to bliss

lies not on beds of down. -Quarles. How

long we -live, not years, but actions

tell; -Watkins. That man lives twice who

lives the first life well. -Herrick.

Make then, while ye may, your God your

friend, -Wm. Mason. Whom Christians

worship, yet not comprehend. -Hill. The

trust that's given, guard, and to

yourself he just, -Dana. For live we

how, we may, yet die we must.

-Shakespeare.