Are yet a master light of all our seeing;
Uphold us, cherish, and have power to make
Our noisy years seem moments in the being
Of the eternal silence: truths that wake,
To perish never;

Which neither listlessness, nor mad endeavor,
Nor man nor boy,

Nor all that is at enmity with joy,

Can utterly abolish or destroy!

Hence, in a season of calm weather,

Though inland far we be,

Our souls have sight of that immortal sea
Which brought us hither,

Can in a moment travel thither,

And see the children sport upon the shore,
And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore.

X.

Then sing, ye birds! sing, sing a joyous song!
And let the young lambs bound

As to the tabor's sound!

We in thought will join your throng,
Ye that pipe and ye that play,

Ye that through your hearts to-day
Feel the gladness of the May!

What though the radiance which was once so bright
Be now forever taken from my sight,

Though nothing can bring back the hour

Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower;

We will grieve not, rather find
Strength in what remains behind;
In the primal sympathy

Which, having been, must ever be,
In the soothing thoughts that spring
Out of human suffering,

In the faith that looks through death,
In years that bring the philosophic mind.

XI.

And O ye fountains, meadows, hills, and groves,
Forebode not any severing of our loves!

Yet in my heart of hearts I feel your might;
I only have relinquished one delight

To live beneath your more habitual sway.

I love the brooks which down their channels fret,
Even more than when I tripped lightly as they;
The innocent brightness of a new-born day
Is lovely yet;

The clouds that gather round the setting sun
Do take a sober coloring from an eye

That hath kept watch o'er man's mortality;

Another race hath been, and other palms are won.
Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears,
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH, 1803-1806.

INDEX OF AUTHORS.

ALFORD, HENRY (1810-1871)

ANONYMOUS

ARNOLD, MATTHEW, b. 1822

BARBAULD, MRS. ANNA LÆTITIA (1743-1825)
BLAKE, WILLIAM (1757-1828)

PAGE

168

53, 70, 129, 187
89, 90, 97

BREVIARY

32,36

BROWNING, MRS. ELIZABETH BARRETT (1809-1861) 62, 149

BRYANT, WILLIAM CULLEN (1794-1878)

170, 173, 200

BURBIDGE, THOMAS, pub. 1834, London

107

CHARLES, MRS. ELIZABETH (Rundell).
CLARKE, JAMES FREEMAN, b. 1810.

181

117

CLIVE, MRS. ARTHUR, pub. 1840
COLERIDGE, HARTLEY (1796-1849) .

COLERIDGE, SAMUEL TAYLOR (1772-1834)
CORNEILLE, PIERRE

CRAIK, DINAH MARIA (MULOCK), b. 1826

DESSLER, WOLFGANG CHRISTOPH (1660-1722)

178

46, 91, 105

6

50

85

150

FABER, FREDERICK WILLIAM (1815-1863) 48, 109, 111, 113,

HAVERGAL, FRANCES RIDLEY, d. 1879 62, 67, 76, 154, 190
HALL, HARRIET WARE

HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
HEMANS, MRS. FELICIA DOROTHEA (1793-1835).
HERBERT, GEORGE (1593-1632) ·
HUNT, LEIGH (1784-1859)

191

108

188

45, 69, 70, 77, 133

. 68

MACDONALD, GEORGE

MANT, BISHOP RICHARD (1776–1848)
MATSON, WILLIAM TIDD (1866)
MARVELL, ANDREW (1620-1678)
MILTON, JOHN (16c8-1674)
MORE, HANNAH (1745-1833) ·
MORE, HENRY (1614-1687)
MOULTRIE, JOHN (1799-1874)

NEWMAN, JOHN HENRY, b. 1801

PALGRAVE, FRANCIS TURNER, b. 1824

PATMORE, COVENTRY, b. 1823

PIGOTT, JEAN SOPHIA

PROCTER, ADELAIDE ANNE (1825-1864)

QUARLES, FRANCIS (1592-1664)

122

78,86
185

196

202

92, 164
64

72

167

79

2

64
141

159

60, 142

SCHEFFLER, JOHANN (ANGELUS SILESIUS) (1624-1677) 117,