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MISFORTUNE-MOB-RABBLE.

29. Sorrow treads heavily, and leaves behind

A deep impression, even when she departs;
While joys trip by with steps light as the wind,
And scarcely leaves a trace upon our hearts.

MRS. E. C. EMBURY.

30. Oh, woe, deep woe, to earthly love's fond trust, When all it once has worshipp'd lies in dust!

31. It breathes no sigh, it sheds no tear, Yet it consumes the heart.

MRS. E. C. EMBURY.

32. You've seen the lightning-flash at night
Play brightly o'er its cloudy pile,

The moonshine tremble on the height,
When Winter glistens cold and bright,—
And like that flash, and like that light,
Is sorrow's vain and heartless smile.

SHERIDAN.

J. G. WHITTIER.

MISFORTUNE. (See ADVERSITY.)

MOB-RABBLE.

1. They praise and they admire they know not what, And know not whom, but as one leads the other:

And what delight to be by such extoll'd,

To live upon their tongues, and be their talk,
Of whom to be disprais'd were no small praise?
MILTON'S Paradise Regained.

2. The rude reproaches of the rascal herd,

Who, for the self-same actions, if successful,
Would be as grossly lavish in their praise.

THOMSON.

3.

The scum

4.

That rises upmost, when the nation boils.

Some popular chief,

More noisy than the rest, but cries halloo,
And in a trice the bellowing herd come out.
They never ask for whom, or what they fight;
But, turn 'em out, and show 'em but a foe:
Cry liberty, and that's a cause for quarrel.

5. Their feet through faithless leather meet the dirt, And oft'ner change their principles than shirt.

6. And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal
Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel,
And loudest shouts when lowest lie
Exalted worth and station high.

7. Who o'er the herd would wish to reign,
Fantastic, fickle, fierce, and vain? -
Vain as the leaf upon the stream,
And fickle as a changeful dream;
Fantastic as a woman's mood,
And fierce as frenzy's fever'd blood.

DRYDEN.

DRYDEN.

YOUNG.

SCOTT'S Rokeby.

SCOTT's Lord of the Isles.

MODESTY. (See BASHFULNESS.)

MONEY. (See GOLD.)

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MOON-STARS-SUN.

MOON-STARS-SUN.

1. The weary sun hath made a golden set, And, by the bright track of his fiery car, Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.

2. But yonder comes the glorious king of day, Rejoicing in the East.

3.

See, at the call of night,

The star of evening sheds his silver light
High o'er yon western hill.

4. Meanwhile, declining from the noon of day, The sun obliquely shoots his burning ray.

5.

The sky

Spreads like an ocean hung on high,
Bespangled with those isles of light
So wildly, spiritually bright.

Who ever gaz'd upon them shining,
And turn'd to earth without repining,
Nor wish'd for wings to flee away,
And mix with their eternal ray?

SHAKSPEARE.

MILTON.

GAY'S Dione.

POPE.

BYRON'S Siege of Corinth.

6. Ye stars, that are the poetry of heaven!

7. The

BYRON'S Childe Harold. queen of night asserts her silent reign.

BYRON'S Corsair.

8. Plac'd in the spangled sky, with visage bright

The full-orb'd moon her radiant beams displays;
But 'neath the vivid sun's more splendid rays,
Sinks all her charms, and fades her lovely light.
From the Portuguese.

9. How oft at midnight have I fix'd my gaze Upon the blue, unclouded firmament,

10.

With thousand spheres illumin'd, and, perchance,
The powerful centres of revolving worlds?

-Going forth,

HON. W. HERBERT.

Her princely way among the stars in slow

And silent brightness.

H. WARE.

11. But the stars, the soft stars!-when they glitter above us, I gaze on their beams with a feeling divine;

For, as true friends in sorrow more tenderly love us,
The darker the heaven, the brighter they shine!
MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY.

12. O! who can lift above a careless look,

While such bright scenes as these his thoughts engage, And doubt, while reading from so fair a book,

That God's own finger trac'd the glowing page;

Or deem the radiance of yon blue expanse,

With all its starry hosts, the careless work of Chance?

MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY.

MORNING.—(See Day.)

MOTHER. (See FATHER.)

MOUNTAINS.

1. He who first met the highlands' swelling blue,
Will love each peak that shows a kindred hue;
Hail in each crag a friend's familiar face,
And clasp the mountain in his mind's embrace.

BYRON'S Island.

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2.

MOURNING - MURDER.

Above me are the Alps,

The palaces of nature, whose vast walls
Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps,

And thron'd eternity in icy halls
Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls

The avalanche-the thunderbolt of snow!-
All that expands the spirit, yet appals,

Gather around these summits, as to show

How earth may pierce to heaven, yet leave vain man below.

BYRON'S Childe Harold.

3. Who first beholds the Alps,-that mighty chain

Of mountains, stretching on from east to west,
So massive, yet so shadowy, so ethereal,
As to belong rather to heaven than earth
But instantly receives into his soul

A sense, a feeling that he loses not

A something that informs him 't is a moment
Whence he may date henceforward and for ever.

ROGERS' Italy.

4. Your peaks are beautiful, ye Apennines,
In the soft light of your serenest skies;
From the broad highland regions, dark with pines,
Fair as the hills of paradise, ye rise!

W. C. BRYANT.

5. And lo! the Catskills print the distant sky,
And o'er their airy tops the faint clouds driven,
So softly blending, that the cheated eye

Forgets or which is earth or which is heaven.

T. S. FAY.

MOURNING.-(See FUNERAL.).

MURDER. (See ASSASSINATION.)