A lady occupied a whole year in

searching for and fitting the follow

ing lines from English and American

poets The whole reads almost as

if written at one time and by one

author 4

LIFE

Why all this toil for triumphs of an

hour T Young

Life s a snort summer—man is but a

1 flower Dr Johnson

By turns we catch the fatal breath and

die Pope

The cradle and the tonnib alas so nigh

Priot

To be is better tar than not to be L ewe l

Though all man s life may seem a tragedy

Spencer

But light cares speak when mighty griefs

are dumb— Drulel

The bottom is but shallow whence they

come Sir Walter Raleigh

Your fate is but the common tate of all

Longfellow

Unmingled joys here to no man betall

Southwell

Nature to each allots his proper sphere

Congreve

Fortune makes folly her peculiar care

Churchill

Custom does often reason over ru e

Rochester

And throw a cruel unshine 011 a fool

it Armstrong

Live well—how long or short permit to

heaven j Milton

They who forgive m at shall be most for-

given Bailey

Sin may be clasped si close we cannot see

Its face French

Jile intercourse where virtue vhas 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 Smollett

With craft and sklll to ruin and betray

f Crabbe

Soar not too nigh to fall but stoop to rise

M ssinger

We masters grow of all that we dc sptse

Crowley

Oh then jrenounce that impious seif

esteem Beattie

Riches have wings and erandeur is a

dream j Cowper

Think not ambition wise because tis

brave Sir Walter Davenaut

The paths ot glory lead but to the grave Gray

What Is ambition Tis a glorious cheat

Willis

Only destructive to the brave and great

T Addison

What is all the gaudy glitter of a crown

Dtyden

The way to bliss lies not on bed« of down

F Quarles

How lojig we live not years but actions

tell Watkins

That man lives twice who lives the first

lite well Herrick

Make thoii while yet ye may your God

your friend Mason

Whom christians worship yet not compre

hend • JiffU

J 4 JM lI i atTgTveh guard and to your-

self be just Dana

For live howe er we may yet die we must

Shakespeare