After this sentence Stuart Campbell finished his supper in silence, with his eyes on his plate; but perhaps no one but his father knew that his cheeks were redder than usual.
Pansy.
A VERITABLE POEM OF POEMS.
A LADY of San Francisco is said to have occupied a year in hunting up and fitting together the following thirty-eight lines from thirty-eight English-speaking poets. The names of the authors are given below:
- 1. Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour?
- 2. Life’s a short summer, man a flower;
- 3. By turns we catch the vital breath, and die;
- 4. The cradle and the tomb, alas! so nigh.
- 5. To be is better far than not to be,
- 6. ’Though all man’s life may seem a tragedy;
- 7. But light cares speak when mighty cares are dumb,
- 8. The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
- 9. Your fate is but the common fate of all;
- 10. Unmingled joys here to no man befall.
- 11. Nature to each allots her proper sphere,
- 12. Fortune makes folly her peculiar care;
- 13. Custom does often reason overrule,
- 14. And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool.
- 15. Live well, how long, how short, permit to heaven,
- 16. They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
- 17. Sin may be clasped so close we cannot see its face—
- 18. Vile intercourse where virtue has not place;
- 19. Then keep each passion down, however dear;
- 20. Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear;
- 21. Her sensual snares, let faithless Pleasure lay
- 22. With craft and skill to ruin and betray;
- 23. Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise.
- 24. We masters grow of all that we despise.
- 25. Oh! then, renounce that impious self-esteem;
- 26. Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream.
- 27. Think not ambition wise because ’tis brave,
- 28. The path of glory leads but to the grave.
- 29. What is ambition? ’Tis a glorious cheat,
- 30. Only destructive to the brave and great.
- 31. What’s all the gaudy glitter of a crown?
- 32. The way to bliss lies not on beds of down.
- 33. How long we live, not years, but actions tell;
- 34. That man lives twice who lives the first life well.
- 35. Make, then, while yet ye may, your God your friend,
- 36. Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend.
- 37. The trust that’s given guard, and to yourself be just;
- 38. For, live we how we can, yet die we must.
1, Young; 2, Dr. Johnson; 3, Pope; 4, Prior; 5, Sewell; 6, Spenser; 7, Daniel; 8, Sir Walter Raleigh; 9, Longfellow; 10, Southwell; 11, Congreve; 12, Churchill; 13, Rochester; 14, Armstrong; 15, Milton; 16, Baily; 17, Trench; 18, Somerville; 19, Thompson; 20, Byron; 21, Smollett; 22, Crabbe; 23, Massinger; 24, Crowley; 25, Beattie; 26, Cowper; 27, Sir Walter Davenant; 28, Gray; 29, Willis; 30, Addison; 31, Dryden; 32, Francis Quarles; 33, Watkins; 34, Herrick; 35, William Mason; 36, Hill; 37, Dana; 38, Shakespeare.
LITTLE LENA.
DID the Pansies read in the papers about Lena Haupt?