RESIGNATION.
Behold, how brightly breaks the morning,
Though bleak our lot, our hearts are warm.
Behold how brightly breaks. J. KENNEY.
God is much displeased
That you take with unthankfulness his doing:
In common worldly things, 't is called ungrateful,
With dull unwillingness to repay a debt
Which with a bounteous hand was kindly lent;
Much more to be thus opposite with heaven,
For it requires the royal debt it lent you.
King Richard III., Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Thus ready for the way of life or death,
I wait the sharpest blow.
Pericles, Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
Winter's Tale, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
But hushed be every thought that springs
From out the bitterness of things.
Addressed to Sir G.H.B. W. WORDSWORTH.
Down, thou climbing sorrow,
Thy element's below!
King Lear, Act ii. Sc 4. SHAKESPEARE.
'T is impious in a good man to be sad.
Night Thoughts, Night IV. DR. E. YOUNG.
The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
To an Afflicted Protestant Lady. W. COWPER.
Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.
Romeo and Juliet, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced
That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,—
That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour
Serves but to brighten all our future days.
Barbarossa, Act v. Sc. 3. J. BROWN.