Flowers are lovely; Love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
O! the joys, that came down shower-like,
Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty,
Ere I was old!
Ere I was old! Ah woful Ere.
Which tells me, Youth's no longer here!
Youth and Age. S.T. COLERIDGE.
ZEAL.
Zeal and duty are not slow;
But on occasion's forelock watchful wait.
Paradise Regained, Bk. III. MILTON.
For virtue's self may too much zeal be had;
The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.
Satires of Horace, Sat. I Bk. II. A. POPE.
No seared conscience is so fell
As that, which has been burned with zeal;
For Christian charity's as well
A great impediment to zeal,
As zeal's a pestilent disease
To Christian charity and peace.
Miscellaneous Thoughts. S. BUTLER.
Easy still it proves, in factious times,
With public zeal to cancel private crimes.
Absalom and Achitophel. J. DRYDEN.
Awake, my soul; stretch every nerve,
And press with vigor on:
A heavenly race demands thy zeal,
And an immortal crown.
Zeal and Vigor in the Christian Race. PH. DODDRIDGE.