Page 779. John Bartlett, comp. 1919. Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.

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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

Page 779

Helen (Fiske) Hunt Jackson. (1830–1885)

7681

All lost things are in the angels’ keeping, Love;
No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love.

At last.

7682

    Like a blind spinner in the sun,
      I tread my days:
I know that all the threads will run
      Appointed ways.
I know each day will bring its task,
And being blind no more I ask.

Spinning.

7683

    On the king’s gate the moss grew gray;
  The king came not. They called him dead
And made his eldest son one day
  Slave in his father’s stead.

Coronation.

7684

    Father, I scarcely dare to pray,
  So clear I see, now it is done,
How I have wasted half my day,
  And left my work but just begun.

A last Prayer.

7685

The voice of one who goes before, to make
The paths of June more beautiful, is thine
Sweet May!

May.

Edward Robert, Earl of Lytton (Owen Meredith) Bulwer-Lytton. (1831–1891)

7686

    The world is filled with folly and sin,
  And Love must cling, where it can, I say:
For Beauty is easy enough to win;
  But one is n’t loved every day.

Changes.

7687

We may live without poetry, music and art;
We may live without conscience and live without heart;
We may live without friends; we may live without books;
But civilized man can not live without cooks.

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