RICH WORDS FROM MANY WRITERS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3837, 16 April 1881, Page 1

RICH WORDS FROM MANY WRITERS.

—"The gay will laugk When thou art gone; the solemn brood of care ':■ . „;,,,. '-, ■'. . . ■-. . Plod on, and each one as before will chase His favorite phantom ; yet all these shall leave Their mirth and their employment and shall oome And make their bed with thee." —Bryant. &EMB FBOM KNOWLEB' DBAMA.TIC WOBXB. —" It ia their loss, and yet their grace, That men of true worth seldom known them

selves, — Whence mere pretemiori gets the upper hand,— And such the mats account as common men, As the unskill'd will oft take uhwrought gold for brass." . '

— Caius Gracchus. —Not enjoyment and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; Sut to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Longfellow.

—The dearest word in our language ia Lore. The greatest is G-od. The word expressing the shortest time is now. The three make the greatest and sweetest duty of man. —God sets some souls in shade alone; They hare no daylight of their ownj Only in lives of happier ones They see the shine of distant tuns.

Mrs A. D. T. Whitney. —It may be G-od who saw our careless life, Not sinful, yet not blameless, my sweet wife, (Sinco all we thought of iu our youth's bright May Was but the coming joy from day to day), Hath blotted out all joy to make us learn, That this is not our home and bid us turn, From the enchanted earth were much was given,

To higher aims and a forgotten heaven. — Bon Mrs. Norton.