NEITHER the secret depth of woods nor the tops of mountains make man blessed if he has not with him solitude of mind, the Sabbath of the heart, and tranquillity of conscience.

Ivo: Bishop of Chartres.

NATURE'S charms, the hills and woods,

The sweeping vales, and foaming floods,
Are free alike to all.

August 4.

P. B. SHELLEY, 1792.

MOST wretched men

Are cradled into poetry by wrong;

They learn in suffering what they teach in song.

Life, like a dome of many-colored glass,

Stains the white radiance of eternity.

Shelley.

SHELLEY, chafing at the Church of England, discovered the cure of all evils in universal atheism. Generous lads, irritated at the injustices of society, see nothing for it but the abolishment of everything and Kingdom Come of anarchy.

Stevenson.

YE marshes, how candid and simple and nothing-withholding

and free,

Ye publish yourselves to the sky and offer yourselves to the sea!

Tolerant plains, that suffer the sea and the rain and the sun, Ye spread and span like the catholic man who hath mightily

won

God out of knowledge, and good out of infinite pain,
And sight out of blindness, and purity out of a stain.

A HAPPY Soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer's day.

Sidney Lanier.

NOBLY to do, nobly to die..

. . . their examples reach a hand

Far thro' all years, and everywhere they meet
And kindle generous purpose, and the strength
To mould it into action pure as theirs.

Tennyson.

THERE came a day at summer's full
Entirely for me;

I thought that such were for the saints,
Where revelations be.

The time was scarce profaned by speech;
The symbol of a word

Was needless.

Emily Dickinson.

ENTIRE happiness does make one tremble. Only, if we feel God in it, and stand but the more ready for His work, we may be safe.

Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.

Bring stars? Oh, how do love and light

Leap at sound and sight

Of her who makes this dark world seem less wrong

Life of my life, and soul of all my song!

R. W. Gilder.

A PRESENCE to be felt and known
In darkness as in light.

Shelley.