O! lost to virtue, lost to manly though t, Lost to the noble sallies of the soul!

Who think it solitude, to be alone.

Communion sweet! Communion large and high,
Our reason, guardian angel, and our God!
Then nearest these, when others most remote ;
And all, ere long, shall be remote, but these.
How dreadful, then, to meet them all alone,
A stranger! unacknowledg'd! unapprov❜d !
Now woo them; wed them; bind them to thy breast;
To win thy wish, creation has no more.

130. RIGHTEOUSNESS.

Giving no pain to any creatures, let him slowly build up righteousness like white ants their hill, that it be to him a companion in the world beyond.

-MANU.

Hear thou a summary of righteousness,
And ponder well the maxim: Never do
To other persons what would pain thyself.*

"PANCHATANTRA."

This is the sum of all true righteousness-
Treat others as thou wouldst thyself be treated.
Do nothing to thy neighbour, which hereafter
Thou wouldst not have thy neighbour do to thee.
In causing pleasure or in giving pain,

In doing good, or injury to others,
In granting or refusing a request,

A man obtains a proper rule of action
By looking on his neighbour as himself.*

-"MAHABHARATA."

Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach

to any people.

-"BIBLE-PROVERBS."

Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

-"BIBLE-ST. MATTHEW 5."

From Indian Wisdom by Monier Williams.

He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but therighteous shall flourish as a branch.

-"BIBLE-PROVERBS 11."

In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

"BIBLE-PROVERBS."

A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked.

-"BIBLE-PROVERBS 37."

Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich. "BIBLE-PROVERBS."

The name of the Lord is a strong tower: the righte-ous runneth into it, and is safe.

-"BIBLE-PROVERBS."

Be glad in the Lord, and rejoice, ye righteous: and shout for joy, all ye that are upright in heart.

-"BIBLE-PSALM 32."

Aye me how many perils doe enfold
The righteous man, to make him daily fall,
Were not that heavenly grace doth him uphold,
And stedfast Truth acquite him out of all.

-SPENSER.

The eyes of the Lord are upon the righteous, and his ears are open unto their cry.

The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth, and delivereth them out of all their troubles.

Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.

-"BIBLE-PSALM 34."

But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord; He is their strength in the time of trouble.

-"BIBLE-PSALM 37."

Whoso worketh righteousness, whether he be male or female, and is a true believer, we will surely raise him to a happy life; and we will give them their reward, according to the utmost merit of their actions.

"KORAN, CHAPTER 16."*

The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth

the prayer of the righteous.

"BIBLE-PROVERBS."

The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; but the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

-"BIBLE-PROVERBS."

Rectitude is the means of pleasing God.

-SADI'S GULISTAN.†

Be peace thy aim, that peace of heart and mind,
Which conscious rectitude alone can give,
Thy hopes, thy joys to virtue's realm confined—
Thy wealth, content thy pride, to purely live.

*Translated by Sale.
†Translated by Platts.

Brief is our sojourn here; the haughtiest head
Must, like the peasant's, own the conqueror's sway.
No wealth can save thee from the narrow bed,
No fame obtain a single hour's delay.

What mocking lures will pomp and pow'r appear,
When earth reclaims its suff'ring kindred clay!