By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall. k. JOHN DICKINSON-The Liberty Song. Our two lives grew like two buds that kiss 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 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. The union of lakes-the union of lands- p. GEORGE P. MORRIS--The Flag of our So we grew together, Two lovely berries moulded on one stem: 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 His simple truth in studious rhymes to pay, 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. V. Apollo has peeped through the shutter, And cockneys and sparrows are singing 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, 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 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. |