CHARITY IN THOUGHT. Ο praise men as good, and to take them for To such, Is a grace, which no soul can mete out to a tittle;— Of which he who has not a little too much, Will by Charity's gage surely have much too little. HUMILITY THE MOTHER OF CHARITY. RAIL creatures are we all! To be the best, FR Look thou then to thyself, and leave the rest ON AN INFANT WHICH DIED BEFORE BAPTISM. OE, rather than be called, a child of God," "BE Death whispered!—with assenting nod, Its head upon its mother's breast, The Baby bowed, without demur Of the kingdom of the Blest Possessor, not inheritor. ON BERKELEY AND FLORENCE WHO DIED ON the 16th. of JANUARY, 1834.1 FRAIL, as sweet! twin buds, too rathe to bear O gifts beyond all price, no sooner given Untainted from the earth, as Christ's, to soar To that dread band seraphic, that doth lie Glorious the thought-yet ah! my babes, ah! still Though cold ye lie in earth-though gentle death Hath suck'd your balmy breath, And the last kiss which your fair cheeks I gave Is buried in yon grave. No tears-no tears—I wish them not again; To die for them was gain, Ere Doubt, or Fear, or Woe, or act of Sin PSYCHE. HE butterfly the ancient Grecians made TH The soul's fair emblem, and its only name But of the soul, escaped the slavish trade 1 By a friend. Our's is the reptile's lot, much toil, much blame, Manifold motions making little speed, And to deform and kill the things whereon we feed. 1808. LOVE, HOPE, AND PATIENCE IN Ο EDUCATION. 'ER wayward childhood would'st thou hold firm rule, And sun thee in the light of happy faces; Love, Hope, and Patience, these must be thy graces, Of Education,-Patience, Love, and Hope. But Love is subtle, and doth proof derive A A [Love. E colo descendit γνῶθι σεαυτὸν.—Juvenal. Γνῶθι σεαυτὸν !—and is this the prime Haply thou mayst know what thyself had made. own? What is there in thee, Man, that can be known ?- A phantom dim of past and future wrought, "G Beareth all things.-2 Cor. xiii. 7. ENTLY I took that which ungently came," same. A wrong done to thee think a cat's eye spark Thou wouldst not see, were not thine own heart dark. COMPLAINT. OW seldom, Friend! a good great man inherits It sounds like stories from the land of spirits, Or any merit that which he obtains. REPROOF. FOR shame, dear Friend! renounce this canting strain ! What wouldst thou have a good great man obtain ? Or throne of corses which his sword hath slain?- And calm thoughts, regular as infant's breath ;- night Himself, his Maker, and the angel Death. WHAT IS LIFE? 1809. R ESEMBLES life what once was deemed of An absolute self-an element ungrounded All that we see, all colours of all shade Is By encroach of darkness made?— very life by consciousness unbounded? And all the thoughts, pains, joys of mortal breath, A war-embrace of wrestling life and death? 1829. |