Shrinking as violets do in summer's ray. j. MOORE - Lalla Rookh.

Star.

Veiled Prophet of Khorassan. Violets, violets, sweet March violets Sure as March comes, they'll come too, First the white and then the blue-Pretty violets!

y. D. M. MULOCK-Violets. Surely as cometh the Winter, I know There are Spring violets under the snow. h. R. H. NEWELL (Orpheus C. Kerr) Spring Violets under the Snow.

The violet thinks, with her timid blue eye,
To pass for a blossom enchantingly shy.
i. Mrs. OSGOOD-- Garden Gossip.

It is the Spring time: April violets glow
In wayside nooks, close clustering into

groups,

TENNYSON-A Dream of Fair Women. A humble flower long time I pined Upon the solitary plain, And trembled at the angry wind, And shrunk before the bitter rain. And oh! 'twas in a blessed hour A passing wanderer chanced to see, And, pitying the lonely flower, To stoop and gather me.

v.

THACKERAY-Sony of the Violet.

Is the purple sea weed rarer
Than the violet of the spring?
w. ANNA WELLS-The Sea-Bird.

Banks that slope to the southern sky
Where languid violets love to die.
x. SARAH HELEN WHITMAN-The Waking
of the Heart.

Here oft we sought the violet, as it lay
Buried in beds of moss and lichens gray.
y.
SARAH HELEN WHITMAN-- A Day of
the Indian Summer.

In kindly showers and sunshine bud
The branches of the dull gray wood;
Out from its sunned and sheltered nooks
The blue eye of the violet looks.

The little wind-flower, whose just opened eye
Is blue as the spring heaven it gazes at,
զ. BRYANT-A Winter Piece.
The starry, fragile wind-flower,
Poised above in airy grace,
Virgin white, suffused with blushes,
Shyly droops her lovely face.

7. ELAINE GOODALE-The First Flowers. Thou lookest up with meek, confiding eye Upon the clouded smile of April's face, Un'armed though Winter stands uncertain by,

Eyeing with jealous glance each opening grace.

S. JONES VERY-- The Wind Flower.

WOLFSBANE.

Aconitum.

The wolfsbane I should dread. HOOD - Flowers.

h.

t.

No. 15.

I see the floating water-lily,

Gleam amid shadows dark and chilly.

i. CAROLINE MAY-Lilies.

WOODBINE. Lonicera.

Those virgin lilies, all the night
Bathing their beauties in the lake,

That they may rise more fresh and bright,
When their beloved Sun's awake.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. J. BENJ. FRANKLIN-The Whistle.

A fool and a wise man are alike both in the starting-place, their birth, and at the post, their death; only they differ in the race of their lives.

k. FULLER-The Holy and Profane States. Natural Fools. Generally, nature hangs out a sign of simplicity in the face of a fool.

1. FULLER-The Holy and Profane
States. Natural Fools.

By outward show let's not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.
GAY-The Packhorse and Carrier.
Pt. II. Line 99.

m.

MASSINGER-Unnatural Combat.

Act V.

Sc. 2.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.

1. Quoted by Camden as a saying of Dr. Metcalf.

In a bowl to sea went wise men three,
On a brilliant night of June:
They carried a net, and their hearts were set
On fishing up the moon.

ጥ.

THOMAS LOVE PEACOCK-The Wise
Men of Gotham. Paper Money
Lyrics.

A blockhead rubs his thoughtless skull,
And thanks his stars he was not born a fool.
POPE-Epilogue to Jane Shore.

S.

Line 7.

Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. t. POPE-Essay on Criticism. Line 625. Leave such to trifle with more grace and

ease,

Whom Folly pleases, and whose Follies please.

น.

POPE-Second Book of Horace. Ep. II.

Line 326.

No creature smarts so little as a fool
υ. POPE-Prologue to Satires. Line 84,
The fool is happy that he knows no more.
POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. II.

w.

Line 264. The rest on Outside merit but presume, Or serve (like other Fools) to fill a room. POPE-The Dunciad. Bk. I.

x.

Where lives the man that has not tried,
How mirth can into folly glide,
And folly into sin?
SCOTT-Bridal of Triermain.
Canto I.

αα.

St. 21.

The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders. p. FULLER-Of Tombs.

Some men treat the God of their fathers as they treat their father's friend, They do not deny him; by no means: they only deny themselves to him, when he is good enough to call upon them.

.. J. C. and A. W. HARE-Guesses at

Truth. And when he is out of sight, quickly also is he out of mind. THOMAS À KEMPIS-- Imitation of Christ. Bk. I. Ch. XXIII.

1.

St. 18.

20.

Troilus and Cressida. Act IV. Sc. 5,

DRYDEN-Conquest of Granada.
Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 2.