The gracious dew of pulpit eloquence,
And all the well-whipped cream of courtly sense.
Satires: Epilogues, Dialogue I. A. POPE.
The lilies say: Behold how we
Preach without words of purity.
Consider the Lilies of the Field. C.G. ROSSETTI.
Sow in the morn thy seed,
At eve hold not thy hand;
To doubt and fear give thou no heed,
Broadcast it o'er the land.
The Field of the World. J. MONTGOMERY.
His preaching much, but more his practice wrought—
A living sermon of the truths he taught.
Character of a Good Parson. J. DRYDEN.
I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.
Love breathing Thanks and Praise. R. BAXTER.
PRESENT, THE.
Lo! on a narrow neck of land,
'Twixt two unbounded seas I stand.
Hymn. C. WESLEY.
This narrow isthmus 'twixt two boundless seas,
The past, the future, two eternities!
Lalla Rookh: The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.
T. MOORE.
Heaven from all creatures hides the book of Fate,
All but the page prescribed, their present state.
Essay on Man, Epistle I. A. POPE.
Happy the man, and happy he alone,
He who can call to-day his own:
He who, secure within, can say,
To-morrow, do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.
Imitation of Horace, Bk. I. Ode 29. J. DRYDEN.