“May every joy that earth can give
Around thee brightly shine;
Remote from sorrow may you live,
And all of heaven be thine.”—
P. S.—Remember me when this you see,
Though many miles apart we be.—M
“Love worketh no ill to his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfillment of the law.”
“This above all—to thine own self be true,
And it must follow as night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any one.”
P. S.—“Sure as the vine twines round the stump,
You are my darling sugar lump.”—M.
“The night is far spent, the day is at hand; let us, therefore, cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armour of light.”
“As for my life, it is but short,
When I shall be no more;
To part with life I am content,
As any heretofore.
Therefore, good people, all take heed,
This warning take by me—
According to the lives you lead,
Rewarded you shall be.”
P. S.—“My pen is bad, my ink is pale,
My love for you shall never fail.”—M.
“Blessed are the peacemakers; for they shall be called the children of God.”
“The harp that once through Tara’s halls
The soul of music shed,
Now hangs as mute on Tara’s wall,
As if that soul were fled.
So sleeps the pride of former days,
So glory’s thrill is o’er;
And hearts that once beat high for praise
Now feel that pulse no more.
No more to chiefs and ladies bright
The harp of Tara swells;
The chord alone that breaks at night
Its tale of ruin tells.
Thus Freedom, now so seldom wakes,
The only throb she gives
Is when some heart indignant breaks
To show that still she lives.”—
P. S.—“My love for you will ever flow,
Like water down a cotton row.”—M
“The earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof; the world and they that dwell therein.
“For He hath founded it upon the seas, and established it upon the floods.
“Who shall ascend into the hill of the Lord, or who shall stand in his holy place?