SMILE.
Smiles from reason flow,
To brute denied, and are of love the food.
Paradise Lost, Bk. IX. MILTON.
Why should we faint and fear to live alone,
Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die,
Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own,
Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh?
The Christian Year, 24th Sunday after Trinity.
J. KEBLE.
And the tear that is wiped with a little address,
May be followed perhaps by a smile.
The Rose. W. COWPER.
The social smile, the sympathetic tear.
Education and Government. T. GRAY.
Eternal smiles his emptiness betray.
As shallow streams run dimpling all the way.
Satires: Prologue. A. POPE.
So comes a reckoning when the banquet's o'er.
The dreadful reckoning, and men smile no more.
The What d' ye Call 't. J. GAY.