By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. k. JOHN DICKINSON-The Liberty Song.

Our two lives grew like two buds that kiss
At lightest thrill from the bee's swinging
chime,
Because the one so near the other is.

1. GEORGE ELIOT-Brother and Sister. Pt. I. St. 1.

Our Union is river, lake, ocean, and sky: Man breaks not the medal, when God cuts the die!

Though darkened with sulphur, though cloven with steel,

The blue arch will brighten, the waters will heal!

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one.

2.

MARIA LOVELL-Translation of
Ingomar the Barbarian.

Then none was for a party;

Then all were for the state; Then the great man helped the poor, And the poor man loved the great: Then lands were fairly portioned;

Then spoils were fairly sold: The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old.

0.

Act II.

MACAULAY-Lays of Ancient Rome.
Horatius. St. 32.

The union of lakes-the union of lands-
The union of States none can sever-
The union of hearts-the union of hands-
And the flag of our Union for ever!

p.

GEORGE P. MORRIS--The Flag of our
Union.

So we grew together,
Like to a double cherry, seeming parted,
But yet a union in partition;

Two lovely berries moulded on one stem:
So, with two seeming bodies, but one heart;
Two of the first, like coats in heraldry,
Due but to one, and crowned with one crest.
.. Midsummer Night's Dream. Act III.
Sc. 2.

UNKINDNESS,

As "unkindness has no remedy at law," let its avoidance be with you a point of

honor.

Othello. Act IV. Sc. 2.

In nature there's no blemish but the mind; None can be call'd deform'd, but the unkind. Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 4

V.

No popular respect will I omit
To do the honour on this happy day,
When every loyal lover tasks his wit

His simple truth in studious rhymes to pay,
And to his mistress dear his hopes convey.
Rather than know it I would still outrun
All calendars with Love's, whose date alway
Thy bright eyes govern better than the sun,
For with thy favour was my life begun:
And still I reckon on from smiles to smiles,
And not by Summers, for I thrive on none
But those thy cheerful countenance compiles.
Oh! if it be to choose and call thee mine
Love, thou art every day my Valentine!
e. HOOD-Sonnet. For the 14th of

February.

Oh! cruel heart! ere these posthumous

papers

Have met thine eyes, I shall be out of breath;

Those cruel eyes, like two funereal tapers,

Have only lighted me the way to death. Perchance thou wilt extinguish them in

vapours,

When I am gone, and green grass covereth Thy lover, lost; but it will be in vainIt will not bring the vital spark again. f. HOOD A Valentine.

Apollo has peeped through the shutter,
And awaken'd the witty and fair;
The boarding-school belle's in a flutter,
The twopenny post's in despair;
The breath of the morning is flinging
A magic on blossom and spray,

And cockneys and sparrows are singing
In chorus on Valentine's day.
PRED-14th of February.

h.

Saint Valentine is past;

Begin these wood-birds but to couple now? Midsummer Night's Dream.

i.

To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day

All in the morning betime,

And I a maid at your window,
To be your Valentine.

J.

Hamlet. Act IV. Sc. 5.

Act IV.

Sc. 1.

The fourteenth of February is a day sacred to St. Valentine! It was a very odd notion, alluded to by Shakespeare, that on this day birds begin to couple; hence, perhaps, arose the custom of sending on this day letters containing professions of love and affection. kc. NOAH WEBSTER.

Now all Nature seem'd in love
And birds had drawn their Valentines.
WOLTON.

1.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery. EMERSON-Essays. Circles.

p.

In vain doth valour bleed, While Avarice and Rapine share the land. MILTON-Sonnet. To the Lord General Fairfax.

q.