** OCTOBER. **

OPAL: HOPE.

OUR life is twofold; Sleep hath its own world,
A boundary between the things misnamed

Death and existence! Sleep hath its own world,
And a wild realm of wild reality,

And dreams in their development have breath,
And tears, and tortures, and the touch of joy;
They leave a weight upon our waking thoughts,
They take a weight from off our waking toils,
They do divide our being; they become
A portion of ourselves as of our time,
And look like heralds of eternity;

They pass like spirits of the past,—they speak
Like sibyls of the future; they have power-
The tyranny of pleasure and of pain;
They make us what we were not-what they,
And shake us with the vision that's gone by,
The dread of vanish'd shadows-Are they so?
Is not the past all shadow? What are they?
Creations of the mind?-The mind can make
Substance, and people planets of its own
With beings brighter than have been, and give
A breath to forms which can outlive all flesh.
in itself a thought,

A slumbering thought, is capable of years,
And curdles a long life into one hour.

The Dream: BYRON.

Mankind are always happier for having been happy; so that if you make them happy now, you make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.

SYDNEY SMITH.

Let us learn to taste and to see that He is with us; all things are His doing, and that is enough. ARCHBISHOP MANNING.

She is so conjunctive to my life and soul,
That as the star moves not, but in his sphere,
I could not, but by her.
SHAKESPEARE.

Every beloved object is the centre of a paradise.

NOVALIS.

Near thee! near thee! ever near thee!
Death's dark river flows between ;

Yet I watch thee, yet I cheer thee,
Still beside thee, though unseen.

October 2.

MARY MAYNARD

A candid censor, and a friend sincere. THOMSON.

Curved is the line of beauty,

Straight is the line of duty;

Walk by this last, and thou shalt see
The other ever follow thee.

ANON.

A married woman is a tower against death to her husband. Ecclesiasticus, xxvi. 22.

Oh! never with the man thou lov'st contend,
But bear a thousand frailties from thy friend.
FITZGERALD.

So lay the pilgrim down ;

Set thou his feet, and face, and closed eyes, Where they may meet the golden-raying Crown Of Christ's own great sunrise.

BISHOP OF DERRY.

October 2.

To be born is to be born for ever, to die is only for a From My Lady.

time.

May Time, who sheds his blight o'er all,

And daily dooms some joy to death,

O'er thee let years so gently fall

They shall not crush one flower beneath.

T. MOORE.

Betrothed to each other for their salvation, now and for ever, even unto ages of ages.

Greek Church Ritual. One heart, one soul in both.

Nearer now seems the land unseen,
And nearer, too, the glorious day,
When the thin veil now drawn between
Shall vanish into light away.

October 4.

MILTON.

H. BONAR.

I will not wish thee grandeur, I will not wish thee wealth,

But only a contented heart, peace, competence, and

health,

And friends to love thee dearly, and honest friends

to chide,

And faithful friends to cleave to thee, whatever may betide.

What am I to you? A stedfast hand

ANON.

To hold, a stedfast heart to trust withal;
Merely a man who loves you, and will stand
By you, whatever befall.

ANON.

The wife is the key of the house. G. HERBERt.

Oh, weary souls! your rest shall be remaining
When ye have gained the city of your God.
The Changed Cross.