ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN. 1832

Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight!
Make me a child again, just for to-night!

Rock me to sleep.

Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years!
I am so weary of toil and of tears,
Toil without recompense, tears all in vain!
Take them, and give me my childhood again!

Ibid.

BISHOP HENRY C. POTTER. 1835

We have exchanged the Washingtonian dignity for the Jeffersonian simplicity, which was in truth only another name for the Jacksonian vulgarity.

Address at the Washington Centennial Service in
St. Paul's Chapel, New York, April 30, 1889.

If there be no nobility of descent, all the more indispensable is it that there should be nobility of ascent, a character in them that bear rule so fine and high and pure that as men come within the circle of its influence they involuntarily pay homage to that which is the one pre-eminent distinction, the royalty of virtue.

Ibid.

FRANCIS M. FINCH.

Under the sod and the dew,
Waiting the judgment day;

Love and tears for the Blue,

Tears and love for the Gray.1

The Blue and the Gray.

1 This poem first appeared in the "Atlantic Monthly."

GROVER CLEVELAND. 1837-.

After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth.

It is a condition which confronts us

Message, March 1, 1886.

- not a theory.1 Annual Message, 1887.

I have considered the pension list of the republic a Veto of Dependent Pension Bill, July 5, 1888.

roll of honor.

Party honesty is party expediency.

Interview in New York Commercial Advertiser, Sept. 19, 1889.

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;

Yet the light of the bright world dies

With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,

And the heart but one;

Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.

1 See Disraeli, page 607.

Light

MISCELLANEOUS.

It may well wait a century for a reader, as God has waited six thousand years for an observer.

JOHN KEPLER (1571-1630). Martyrs of Science (Brewster). P. 197.

Needle in a bottle of hay.

FIELD (

-1641): A Woman's a Weathercock. (Reprint, 1612, p. 20.)

He is a fool who thinks by force or skill

To turn the current of a woman's will.

SAMUEL TUKE (————-1673): Adventures of Five Hours. Act v. Sc. 3.

Laugh and be fat.

JOHN TAYLOR (1580?-1684). Title of a Tract, 1615.

Diamond cut diamond.

JOHN FORD (1586-1639): The Lover's Melancholy. Act i. Sc. 1.

A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest. JOHN WINTHROP (1588-1649): Life and Letters. Vol. ii. p. 341.

I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.

RICHARD BAXTER (1615-1691): Love breathing Thanks and Praise.

Though this may be play to you,

"T is death to us.

ROGER L'ESTRANGE (1616-1704): Fables from Several Authors.
Fable 398.

And there's a lust in man no charm can tame
Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame;
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born and die.

STEPHEN HARVEY (circa 1627): Juvenal, Satire ix.

May I govern my passion with absolute sway,

And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away. WALTER POPE (1630-1714): The Old Man's Wish.

When change itself can give no more,

'T is easy to be true.

CHARLES SEDLEY (1639-1701): Reasons for Constancy.

The real Simon Pure.

SUSANNAH CENTLIVRE (1667-1723): A bold Stroke for a Wife.

When all the blandishments of life are gone,

The coward sneaks to death, the brave live on.

GEORGE SEWELL (—-1726): The Suicide.

Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.

AMBROSE PHILLIPS (1671–1749): From Holland to a Friend in England.

My galligaskins, that have long withstood
The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts,

By time subdued (what will not time subdue!),

A horrid chasm disclosed.

JOHN PHILIPS (1676-1708): The Splendid Shilling. Line 121.

For twelve honest men have decided the cause,
Who are judges alike of the facts and the laws.

WILLIAM PULTENEY (1682-1764): The Honest Jury.

Farewell to Lochaber, farewell to my Jean,
Where heartsome wi' thee I hae mony days been;
For Lochaber no more, Lochaber no more,
We'll maybe return to Lochaber no more.

ALLAN RAMSAY (1686-1758): Lochaber no More.

Busy, curious, thirsty fly,

Drink with me, and drink as I.

WILLIAM OLDYS (1696-1761): On a Fly drinking out of a Cup of Ale.

Thus Raleigh, thus immortal Sidney shone

(Illustrious names!) in great Eliza's days.

THOMAS EDWARDS (1699-1757): Canons of Criticism.

One kind kiss before we part,
Drop a tear and bid adieu;

Though we sever, my fond heart

Till we meet shall pant for you.

ROBERT DODSLEY (1703–1764): The Parting Kiss.

A charge to keep I have,
A God to glorify;

A never dying soul to save,

And fit it for the sky.

CHARLES WESLEY (1708-1788): Christian Fidelity.

Of right and wrong he taught

Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;

And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached. JOHN ARMSTRONG (1709–1779): The Art of Preserving Health. Book iv. Line 301.

Gentle shepherd, tell me where.

SAMUEL HOWARD (1710-1782): Song.

Pray, Goody, please to moderate the rancour of your

tongue!

Why flash those sparks of fury from your eyes?

Remember, when the judgment's weak the prejudice is strong. KANE O'HARA (——-1782): Midas. Act i. Sc. 4.

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.

ROBERT LOWTH (1710-1787): Choice of Hercules, i.

And he that will this health deny,

Down among the dead men let him lie.

DYER (published in the early part of the reign of George I.).

Each cursed his fate that thus their project crossed;
How hard their lot who neither won nor lost!

RICHARD GRAVES (1715-1804): The Festoon (1767).

Cease, rude Boreas, blustering railer!

List, ye landsmen all, to me;

Messmates, hear a brother sailor
Sing the dangers of the sea.

GEORGE A. STEVENS (1720-1784): The Storm.

That man may last, but never lives,

Who much receives, but nothing gives;

Whom none can love, whom none can thank,

Creation's blot, creation's blank.

THOMAS GIBBONS (1720-1785): When Jesus dwelt.