June 29th,

June 28th.

TAKE not the gods to task, for they are wise
When they refuse no less than when they grant.
Thou can'st but know, with all thy bursting sighs,
What is thy whim, but never what thy want.
Did they, to smite thine importunity,
Answer each swift unregulated prayer,

Oh, what accursed trudger would'st thou be,
And what a world of fardels have to bear.

So grace and mercy at your most need help you,

Alfred Austin.

Shakespeare.

June 29th.

I SHALL be quite enraptured if you sing,

So but your taste is pure as was the Attic's ;

I only beg you'll take care not to fling

Your time away in learning mathematics;

Nor to my arms a heavy portion bring

Of chemistry-and Greek—and hydrostatics;

You may nurse pinks and tulips, if you've got any,
But be no florist, love,-nor deal in botany.

KEEP no followers of that hateful brood
That basely mingles with its wholesome food
The tumid reptile, which, the poet said,
Doth wear a precious jewel in his head,

June 30th.

FAIR was she, frank, and innocent as a child
That stares you in the eyes; fearless of ill,
Because she knew it not; and brave withal,

Because she drank the draught that maketh strong,
The charmed country air.

BUT words for ever of the mark fly wide,

And language makes that false which thought left true.
Then let us call wise silence to our side,

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to find the clue

To that agreeing ground where creeds that jar
Upon the lips, the mind's twin-brothers are.

J. Moultrie.

Oliver W. Holmes.

George Mac Donald.

Alfred Austin.

July 1st.

E are a wealthy people

In all the faculties of woe. We have

Our sighs for roses, elegies for sparrows,

And seas of salt tears for deceased gold-fish.

Do you take me for

A season friend no stancher than the bird,

Whose time the sun appoints to come and go,

Sydney Dobell.

And's with us when 'tis summer?-O you wrong me!

Sheridan Knowles.

July 2nd.

I KEN not the strange guize of learned schools,
But if God's thoughts be contrair unto us,
Let not deep wonderment possesse our souls,
If He call fools wisemen, and wisemen fools.
If rich He poore men term, if poore men rich,
If crafty states-men, silly country gulls,

Beasts men, men beasts, with many other such:

God seeth not as man seeth, God speaks not in man's speech. Henry More.

PLEASED to look forward, pleased to look behind,
And count each birth-day with a grateful mind.

Pope

July 3rd.

O, FEAR not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know ere long-
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.

AND so we trust that in the dim hereafter,
Or be it dawn or twilight, moon or night,

The thread of that great scheme whereof this life
Is, as a something tells us, but a part,

Will not be lost, but taken up again

And woven into one completest whole.

Longfellow.

Bryan Charles Waller.