The earth is given

To us: we reign by virtue of a sense

Which lets us hear the rhythm of that old verse,
The ring of that old tune to which she spins.
Humanity is given to us: we reign
By virtue of a sense which lets us in

To know its troubles ere they have been told,
And take them home and lull them into rest
With mournfulest music. Time is given to us,—
Time past, time future. Who, good sooth, beside
Have seen it well, have walked this empty world

When she went steaming, and from pulpy hills Have marked the spurting of their flamy crowns? JEAN INGELOW, Gladys and Her Island.

We count

For poets all who ever felt that such
They were, and all who secretly have known
That such they could not be; ay, moreover, all
Who wind the robes of ideality

About the bareness of their lives, and hang
Comforting curtains, knit of fancy's yarn,
Nightly betwixt them and the frosty world.

IBID.

Jewels five words long, That on the stretch'd forefinger of all Time Sparkle forever.

ALFRED TENNYSON, The Princess.

A verse may find him who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.

GEORGE HERBERT, The Church Porch.

And once I knew a meditative rose
That never raised its head from bowing down;
Yet drew its inspiration from the stars.

It bloomed and faded here beside the road,
And, being a poet, wrote on empty air
With fragrance all the beauty of its soul.
HENRY ABBEY, A Morning Pastoral.

-Doth not song

To the whole world belong!

Is it not given wherever tears can fall,
Wherever hearts can melt, or blushes glow,
Or mirth and sadness mingle as they flow,
A heritage to all?

ISA CRAIG-KNOX, Ode on a Centenary of Burns.

All days are birthdays in the life,
The blessed life that poets live,
Songs keep their own sweet festivals,
And are the gifts, they come to give.
The only triumph over Time

That Time permits, is his who sings;
The poet Time himself defies

By secret help of Time's own wings. HELEN HUNT Jackson, To O. W. Holmes on his 70th Birthday.

He walks with God upon the hills!

And sees, each morn, the world arise New-bathed in light of Paradise.