"A merry heart goes all the day,

Your sad tires in a mile-a!"

Winter's Tale, IV. 2.

WITH

ITH cheerful heart and hope for better things

We can affront the steepest hills;

But apprehension with it ever brings
A want of power to cope with actual ills.

January 28.

"To thine own self be true

And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to any man.'

وو

Hamlet, I. 3.

HE worst of lies a man can tell

THE

Are those he tells to self;

Deception paves the path to hell,

Puts honour on the shelf.

"For charity itself fulfils the law,
And who can sever love from charity.”

C

Love's Labour's Lost, IV. 3.

HARITY is love purified,

Purged of sense and glorified,

Love for all, not one alone—

It doth for many sins atone.

January 30.

'Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that, And manage it against despairing thoughts."

Two Gentlemen of Verona, III. 1.

OOR love will die of hope bereft.

POOR

Like myrtle in a mountain cleft
It sprang to life 'midst wreathéd smiles,
It nothing knew of woman's wiles;
The winter storms, the drifting snow
Have told the myrtle it must go ;
So cold indifference kills love's hope,
It cannot with bleak winter cope.

January 31.

"Past and to come seem best, things present worse.

WE

2 Henry IV. I. 3.

E never with the present are content;
The glamour of the past obscures the sight,

Or longing eyes upon the future bent

Prevent our judging of to-day aright.

February 1.

"We must take the current as it serves

Or lose our ventures."

Julius Cæsar, IV. 3.

TIS

IS useless 'gainst the stream to strive,
Or fight against the wind;

Oppose the drift of current thought,
Ignore the modern mind.

To lead a peaceful happy life,
Follow the fashions new,

Take to yourself a well-dowered wife,
Indulge in friendships few.

N

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'Glory is like a circle in the water,

Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself

Till by broad spreading it disperse to naught."

1 Henry VI. I. 2.

AY, 'tis not so, Glory's bright ripples, though

unseen,

Are felt and vivify all future ages,

For stories of the heroes that have been

Make warriors stalwart out of ladies' pages.

February 3.

Marquis of Salisbury born, 1830.

"A man of sovereign parts he is esteemed."

Love's Labour's Lost, II. 1.

CECIL! to the old tradition true,

A with his own

With his own country's safety aye in view—

To binding foreign treaties still opposed,
But arméd ever ready 'gainst our foes,
Esteeming peace above all earthly things,
Alive to all the evils that war brings,
Ready to parley, 'gainst aggression firm:

Long may he live to guard our shores from harm!