TRY

Howe'er contrary,

Time mostly to us comfort brings,
Our views will vary.

Time softens, soothes the sharpest stings,
Their memory pales,

We gladly think of other things

The past entails.

As of a long and toilsome way
That once we passed,

We're fain to dwell upon the day

When we reached home at last.

"This is All-Souls' day, fellows, is it not?"

Richard III. V. 1.

HEN all the souls that e'er have lived

WE

Shall 'fore the throne appear,

Christian and heathen, black and white,
Gathered from far and near,

Shall we then know the souls we loved

Whilst dwelling here below?

Shall I be I and you be you?
Shall we know friend from foe?

I ask in vain; no answer comes
From out the formless void;
Reason is dumb, conjecture fails,
To say what there betide.

"The earth hath bubbles as the water has,
And these are of them."

Macbeth, I. 3.

WE

E vainly strive grave facts to match
With theories all our own,

We look, we listen and we catch

A glimpse of the unknown.

We vainly strive with finite eyes
The infinite to span,

And the deep wisdom of the All-wise
With purblind sight to scan.

November 4.

"All delights are vain, but that most vain
Which with pain purchased, doth inherit pain."
Love's Labour's Lost, I. 1.

E sacrifice ourselves and toil with pain

the possession of a fancied prize,

And when attained we question where's the gain?

'Tis in pursuit that the true pleasure lies.

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Battle of Inkerman, 1854.

"Breathe you my friends-Well fought."

Coriolanus, I. 6.

LL honour to the men who won the fight

By reckless courage and fierce bayonet
thrust,

Surprised, outnumbered, no reserve in sight,
They fought and died for very fighting's lust.

November 6.

"God's goodness hath been great to thee;
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what the Lord has done."

2 Henry VI. II. 1.

OD'S goodness is abounding to us all,

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But He in His wise providence decrees That we ourselves be careful lest we fall

A careless step may bring us to our knees.'

"Truth never can be confirmed enough,

Though doubts did ever sleep."

Pericles, I. 1.

RUTH is itself, and needs no confirmation,
As light is light although the blind can't

see;

Falsehood, as truth disguised, is swift damnation, As corpse-lights to the wanderer would be.

November 8.

"The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,

Unless the deed go with it."

Macbeth, IV. 1.

CT not on flighty purpose, but consider

Whither 'tis likely it may lead you-whither?