GRAINS OF GOLD

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 23, 11 June 1908, Page 3

GRAINS OF GOLD

AT THOUGHT OF DEATH. If Thou, 0 God, shouldst summon me to-night And bid me put the things of time away, Nor let me e\en for a moment stay To set the day's unfinished tasks aright, How should my soul shrink back in sore affright, And eager unto Thee for respite pray, That I the penalty of sin might pay Ere standing, bowed with shame, in Thy pure sight ! I know this, Lord, and yel the days go by With little heed that one must be the last. O help me so to live that I may die With no dark thoughts of unforgiven past ; And grant, as on the bed of death I lie, All fears may in Thy Sacred Heart be cast. — ' Aye Maria.' Virtue vanishes when one wishes to parade it.— E. Cornilhe. We prefer speaking ill of ourselves to not speaking at all.— La Rochefoucauld. In order to rise, how far will we not descend !— C. Delavigne. The happiness that comes from renown is a bronze statue hollcrw within.— Ph. Gerfaut. Every war ends where it should begin— in peace.— Abbe Barthelmy. Man orders his life ; woman undergoes hers.— P. Korrigan. One must never have more sense than one's leaders. — A. Assolant. People who recreate too much bore themselves.—' Christine de Suede. Egoists always leave, in improved health, thtfehambers of the sick.-^P. Bourget. __ It is precisely on<the eve of its accomplishment that a revolution is deemed impossible.— J. ' Simon. To digest knowledge, one must have swallowed it with an appetite.— A. France. In all lands, all good hearts are brothers.— Florian. I read, not to instruct, but to elevate myself.— Eugenic de Guerin. ~" , ~ To be economical is in reality to be miserly as to one's superfluity.— A. Houssaye. Our friends— a family whose members we have chosen.—A". Karr.