“Dead? did you say he was dead? or is it only my brain?

He went away an hour ago; will he never come again?”—Tamar Kermode.

“There is no armor against fate.”—Shirley.

“Dreadful is their doom * * * like yonder blasted bough by thunder riven.”—Beattie.

“By forms unseen their dirge is sung.”—Collins.

“Death, a necessary evil, will come when it will come.”—Shakespeare.

“Where is the reed on which I leant?”—Tennyson.

“To-morrow is with God alone.

And man hath but to-day.”—Whittier.

“Who so shall telle a tale after a man moste reherse everich word.”—Chaucer.