FORGIVENESS-(See PARDON.) Are strong with struggling. Power at thee

True Freedom is where no restraint is known | Thy sword; nor yet, O Freedom! close thy lids

Free in his will to choose or to refuse,
Man may improve the crisis, or abuse;
Else, on the fatalist's unrighteous plan,
Say to what bar amenable is man?

So from the heights of will

Life's parting stream descends,

And, as a moment turns its slender rill,
Each widening torrent bends.

From the same cradle's side,

From the same mother's knee,
One to long darkness and the frozen tide,
One to the peaceful sea!

Ye who live,

HOLMES.

Do so each cause refer to heaven above,
E'en as its motion, of necessity,
Drew with it all that moves. If this were so,
Free choice in you were none; nor justice

would

There should be joy for virtue, woe for ill.
From the Italian of DANTE.

Think not too meanly of thy low estate,
Thou hast a choice; to choose is to create!
Remember whose the sacred lips that tell,
Angels approve thee when thy choice is well.
HOLMES.

We drive the furrow with the share of faith Through the waste fields of life, and our own hands

With naught in charge, he could betray no Sow thick the seeds that spring to weeds or

trust;

And if he fell, would fall because he must;
If love reward him, or if vengeance strike,
His recompense in both unjust alike.

COWPER.

flowers;

And never strong necessity nor fate
Trammels the soul that firmly says, I will!
Else are we playthings, and 'tis Satan's mock
To preach to us repentance and belief.

And God proclaimed from heaven, and by an To visit earth, one shrine the goddess finds,

oath Confirmed, that each should answer for himself. POLLOK.

And one alone to make her sweet amends
For absent Heaven-the bosom of a friend.
YOUNG.