9. Tears are streaming down those cheeks, bronzed' by burning suns, and furrowed by sea-foam and tempest; and that voice, whose stern tones had risen above the roar of battle, and roused the seaman from his slumbers like the trump" of doom, grows all tremulous with emotion, as he cries, "God be merciful to me a sinner." 1. I AM coming, little maiden, With the pleasant sunshine laden ; With the blossom for the tree; With the flower and with the leaf: 2. I am coming, I am coming! wil'lowş prim'rōş-eş And the gnats are on the wing: 3. See the yellow catkins' cover 4. Hark! the little lambs are bleating, 5. Turn thy eyes to earth and heaven: Pour thy soul in gratitude!" 1 BRIEF. Short, not long. CATKIN. A sort of flower like a 3 PRIMROSE A low plant, flowering' early in the spring. spike, consisting of scales overlap-4 CAWING. Making a noise as if re ping each other, and hanging from the hazel, birch, willow, &c. peating the syllable caw. OUR best friends are they who tell us of our faults, and teach us how to amend them. Never think that you have done well enough while you feel that you can still do better. 1. Down in my solitude' under the snow, 2. I will not despair, nor be idle, nor frown, My leaves shall run up, and my roots shall run down, 3. Soon as the frost will get out of my bed, I will peer up with my bright little head; 4. Then from my heart will young petals diverge, 5. Gayly arrayed in my yellow and green, 5 6. Many, perhaps, from so simple a flower borrow may Patient to-day, through its gloomiest hour, 1. A SOFT answer turneth away wrath; but grievous' words stir up anger. 2. Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. 3. He that is slow to anger is better than the mighty; and he that ruleth his spirit, than he that taketh a city. 4. It is an honor for a man to cease from strife; but every fool will be meddling. 5. Even a child is known by his doings, whether his work be pure, and whether it be right. 6. A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favor rather than silver and gold. 7. Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart from it. 8. Boast not thyself of to-morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth. 9. Let another man praise thee, and not thine own mouth; a stranger, and not thine own lips. 1 GRIEVOUS. Causing grief, oppressive, vexatious, irritating. |