The following remarkable

compilation is a contribution to

the San Francisco Times from

the pen of Mrs H A Deming

The reader will notice that each

line is a quotation from some

of the standard authors of Eng-

land and America This is the

result of a year’s laborious

search among the leading poets

of the past and present time —

Why all this toil for triumphs of an

boar T Young

Life’s a short summer man a flower

Dr Johnson

By tains we catch the vital breath

and die— Pope

The cradle and the tomb alas so

nigh Frior

To be is better far than not to be

Sewell

Though all man’s life may seem a

tragedy j Spenser

But light cares speak when mighty

griefs are dumb Daniell

The bottom is but shallow whence

they con Raleigh

Your fate is but the oommon fate

of all Longfellow

Unmingled joys here to no man

befall Southwell

Nature to each allots his proper

sphere Congreve

Fortune makes folly her peculiar

care Churchill

Custom does often reason overrule

Rochester

And throw cruel sunshine on a fool

Armstrong

Live well hew long or short per-

mit to heaven Milton

They who forgive most shall be

most forgiven Bailey

Sin may be clasped so close we can-

not see its face Trench

Vile intercourse where virtue has

noplace Somerville j

Then keep each passion down how-

ever dear Thomson

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile

and tear Byron

Her sensual snares let faithless

Pleasure lay Smollett

With craft and skill to ruin and

betray Crabbe

Soar not too bigh to fall but stoop

to rise Massinger

We masters grow of all that we de

spise Cowley

Then I renounoe that impious self-

esteem Beattie

Riches hath wings and grandeur is

a dream Cowper

Think not ambition wise because

’tis brave Davenani

The paths of glory lead bat to the

grave Gray

What is ambition —’tie 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 livee twioe who lives the

first life well Herrick

Make thon while yet wo may your

God your friend Mason

Whom Christians worship yet not

comprehend Hill

The trust that s given guard and to

yourself be just Dan

For live we how we can yet die wo

must Shakspeare

many open ears —Bishop Hall

What three fold joy to have

again after once having had —

Ed Fawcett

A man