Home of our childhood! how affection clings And hovers round thee with her seraph wings! Home is the sphere of harmony and peace, The spot where angels find a resting-place, When, bearing blessings, they descend to earth. MRS. HALE. The angry word suppressed, the taunting thought, Subduing and subdued, the petty strife, The almost sacred joys of home depend. Home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, Supporting and supported, polished friends And dear relations mingle into bliss. Domestic happiness, THOMSON. Thou art the nurse of virtue; in thine arms Dearer thy hills, though clad in autumn She smiles, appearing, as in truth she is, Heaven-born, and destined to the skies again. brown, Honor is Formed on the good old plan, Virtue's allowed ascent; honor that clasps MASSINGER. Honor's a sacred tie-the law of kings, And imitates her actions where she is not. Ah, how empty, ah, how fleeting From the German of FRANCK. How vain are all hereditary honors, Say, what is honor? 'Tis the finest sense WORDSWORTH. YOUNG. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never is, but always to be blest. POPE. Hope, like the glimm'ring taper's light, GOLDSMITH. Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe; Won by their sweets, in Nature's languid hour, The way-worn pilgrim seeks thy summer bower; There, as the wild bee murmurs on the wing, What peaceful dreams thy handmaid spirits bring! What viewless forms the Eolian organ play, True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's And sweep the furrowed lines of anxious thought away! Reflected on the lake, I love CAMPBELL. To see the stars of evening glow; But earthly hope, how bright soe'er, Still fluctuates o'er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as 'tis fair. Unfading Hope! when life's last embers burn, | Strange how much darkness melts before a When soul to soul, and dust to dust return, ray; Heaven to thy charge resigns the awful hour! How deep a gloom one beam of hope enlightens! O! then thy kingdom comes! Immortal Even in the warm and summer light of joy, Without those hopes that, like refreshing gales At evening from the sea, come o'er the soul, Breathed from the ocean of eternity! DAWES. The world may change from old to new, Yet hope and heaven, forever true, SARAH F. ADAMS. Hope smiles on the boy from the hour of his birth, To the youth it gives bliss without limit; It gleams for old age as a star on earth, And the darkness of death cannot dim it. Its rays will gild even fathomless gloom, When the pilgrim of life lies down in the tomb. From the German of SCHILLER. By sorrow revealed, as the stars are by night, Far off a bright vision appears; And Hope, like the rainbow, a being of light, Is born, like the rainbow, in tears. T. K. HERVEY. Hope rules a land forever green; Clouds at her bidding disappear; WORDSWORTH. And O! without them, who could bear the The rose is fairest when 'tis budding new, And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears. WALTER SCOTT. But Hope that glorious door Passed not: it was not hers to dwell Where pure desires to full fruition swell Her ministry was o'er; To cheer earth's pilgrim toward the sky, Other hope had she none, nor wish in life but to follow My mansion, bright humility, It shall return with that it sought. He that is down need fear no fall; BUNYAN. Heaven-gates are not so highly arched WEBSTER. Be wise; Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. MASSINGER. The saint that wears heaven's brightest crown, In deepest adoration bends; The weight of glory bows him down Then most when most his soul ascends; MONTGOMERY. Humility is eldest-born of virtue, Meekly, with reverent steps, the sacred feet of And claims the birthright at the throne of heaven. the Saviour. LONGFELLOW. Ah, well! for us all some sweet hope lies Deeply buried from human eyes; And, in the hereafter, angels may Roll the stone from its grave away. WHITTIER. HUMILITY. Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty, and so many my defects, That I would rather hide me from my greatness, God many a spiritual house has reared, but |