"LOOK, THE GENTLE DAY DAPPLES THE DROWSY EAST WITH SPOTS OF GRAY."-SHAKSPEARE. "THE EYE OF DAY HATH OPENED ITS LIDS."-SHAKSPEARE. "MORNING FAIR, CAME FORTH WITH PILGRIM STEPS IN AMICE GRAY."-MILTON. MORNING. |ULL many a glorious morning have I seen And from the forlorn world his image hide, [WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. These lines are extracted from Sonnet xxxiii.] SUNRISE. O! here the gentle lark, weary of rest, And wakes the morning from whose silver breast * Compare with John Lylye's "Songs of Birds," p. 16. 'FLAKY DARKNESS BREAKS WITHIN THE EAST."-SHAKSPEARE. "NOW LIFE, WITH EVERY MOMENT, SEEMS TO START IN AIR, IN WAVE, ON EARTH; ABOVE, BELOW."-LYTTON. 28 'MORN, LIKE A MAIDEN GLANCING O'ER HER PEARLS."-BAILEY. A FOOL IN THE FOREST. Who doth the world so gloriously behold, A FOOL IN THE FOREST. FOOL, a fool! I met a fool i' the forest, Who laid him down and basked him in the sun, "Good morrow, fool," quoth I. "No, sir," quoth he, 66 MORN SOWED THE EARTH WITH ORIENT PEARL."-MILTON. "THE POTENT SUN MELTS INTO LIMPID AIR THE HIGH-RAISED CLOUDS."-THOMSON. "THE LAND WHERE, GIRT BY FRIEND OR FOE, A MAN MAY SPEAK THE THING HE WILL."-TENNYSON. "ENGLAND, WITH ALL THY FAULTS I LOVE THEE STILL."-COWPER. And then he drew a dial from his poke, And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye, Thus may we see,” quoth he, “how the world wags: And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; A worthy fool! Motley's the only wear. [WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. You Like It."] This is spoken by Jaques in the play of "As "GRAVE MOTHER OF MAJESTIC WORKS, FROM HER ISLE-ALTAR GAZING DOWN."-TENNYSON. ENGLAND. HIS royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This fortress, built by Nature for herself, Against the envy of less happier lands,— This blessed spot, this earth, this realm, this England. [WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. From the play of "Henry V."] "LIKE LITTLE BODY WITH A MIGHTY HEART."-SHAKSPEARE. "MAN SHUNS TO KNOW THAT LIFE PROTRACTED IS PROTRACTED WOE."-DR. JOHNSON. 330 "LIFE, LIKE A DOME OF MANY-COLOURED glass, QUEEN MAB. LIFE. O-MORROW, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, To the last syllable of recorded time; The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! [WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. From the play of " Macbeth."] "LET KNOWLEDGE GROW FROM MORE TO MORE, BUT MORE OF REVERENCE IN US DWELL."-TENNYSON. QUEEN MAB. JH, then, I see, Queen Mab hath been with you. In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, STAINS THE WHITE RADIANCE OF ETERNITY."-SHELLEY. "WITH MOST DELIGHTFUL WONDER I HAVE HEARD TALES OF THE ELFIN TRIBE."-SOUTHEY. "ALL SUDDENLY I SAW THE FAERY QUEEN."—RALEIGH. Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut, Made by the joiner squirrel, or old grub, [WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE. From "Romeo and Juliet.”| ARIEL'S SONG. JOME unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have and kissed, (The wild waves whist,*) Foot it featly here and there; * Hushed, silent. "THE REFLEX OF A LEGEND PAST."-ALFRED TENNYSON. "ABOUT THIS SPRING, THE DAPPER ELVES THEIR MOONLIGHT SPORTS RENEW."-POPE. |