CLERGY.
He 'stablishes the strong, restores the weak,
Reclaims the wanderer, binds the broken heart.
The Timepiece: The Task, Bk. II. W. COWPER.
Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to Heaven,
Whilst, like a puffed and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads,
And recks not his own rede.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
Wel ought a prest ensample for to yive,
By his clennesse, how that his sheep shulde lyve.
* * * * *
To draw folk to heven by fairnesse
By good ensample, this was his busynesse.
Canterbury Tales: Prologue. CHAUCER.
Of right and wrong he taught
Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;
And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached.
Art of Preserving Health J. ARMSTRONG.
CLOUD.
By unseen hands uplifted in the light
Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud
Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad,
And wafted up to heaven.
Michael Angelo, Pt. II. H.W. LONGFELLOW.
Yonder cloud
That rises upward always higher,
And onward drags a laboring breast.
And topples round the dreary west,
A looming bastion fringed with fire.
In Memoriam, XV. A. TENNYSON.