"Doublet and hose ought to show itself

courageous to petticoat."

As You Like It, II. 4.

W

'HEN the sex calls us we must needs obey

By storm or sunshine or by night or day Whate'er our work or pleasure or our care, Discard them all, for we must still be there. All sacrifice or service man can pay Is justly due to woman's tender sway— To her who bore us, suffered all our pain, To whom our happiness is greatest gain.

April 7.

"A day in April never came so sweet
To show how closely summer was at hand."

PIED

Merchant of Venice, II. 9.

April's sweet may change to sour,

And bleak nor'-westers turn its blossoms black;

So may the fickle fair one of the hour

Laugh at our love and jeer behind our back.

"When sorrows come they come not single spies

But in battalions."

Hamlet, IV.

5.

S years creep on and vital powers fail,

cover thoughts prevail,

The sorrows that so vexed our earlier years
Fade in importance. Both our hopes and fears,
Freed from the earth, embrace a wider range
In contemplation of the coming change.

WERE

April 9.

"Every why has a wherefore.”

Comedy of Errors, II. 2.

ERE there no wherefore, there could be no why,

Reason accepts the wherefore, beauty charms the

eye;

The why and wherefore set the mind at rest,

But beauty lights a fire within the breast.

In love there is no reason why or wherefore;

We love because we love-that is the therefore.

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be." Hamlet, IV. 5.

we know but what we are

DID We might gather whence we come,

And what the future, although far,
May offer for our home.

We know full well there was a past,
We hope a future will be there;
But for the present, passing fast,
Why need we grieve or care?

In truth to-day is but a myth,
It lives but as a word;

'Tis either past or future with

The wind that we have heard.

Change, change eternal, rules
O'er all creation's kind;
All things created are but tools
To destiny's great mind.

"That sport best pleases that doth least know how." Love's Labour's Lost, V. 2.

HE wit spontaneous, and the merry jest

That sparkling rise from out the ready brain, THE

Pass wisdom's efforts even at their best,

And free from malice leave no after stain.

April 12.

"Since the affairs of men rest still uncertain,
Let's reason with the worst that may befall."

Julius Cæsar, V. 1.

HY don our mourning ere black death be

WHY

there?

The evil of the day sufficeth thereunto.

Why open wide the door to carking care

When Sol's bright rays may yet the clouds pierce

through ?

"God's goodness hath been great."

2 Henry VI. II. 1.

`OR triumph of our arms by land or sea,

FOR

For happy close of e'er an enterprise, We thank the Lord, His providence we see,

We deem Him bountiful and just and wise.

And when affliction haunts us, projects fail,

The foemen triumph and our friends depart, Shall we then blindly 'gainst His ruling rail And wince before the punishment and smart?

Nay, rather let us humbly bow the knee,
Seeing alike in weal and woe His hand;
Improve the lesson, reverence His decree,
And hope for shelter in the promised land.