92. ALLOTMENT, Thy. Thou cam'st not to thy place by accident, Do not for this give room to discontent, And wouldst thou do one duty to His mind, 93. ALLUREMENTS, Earthly. O streams of earthly love and joy, Ye tempt us, and we brave your depths, Too deep and strong for us!-We glide On to a siren grave. O world, with all thy smiles and loves, Thou woundest, but thou canst not heal, O world, there's fever in thy touch, To lose and shun thee is to live, 96. ALLUREMENTS, Resisting. Ulysses, sailing by the Siren's isle, [them fast Sealed first his comrades' ears, then bade Bind him with many a fetter to the mast, Lest those sweet voices should their souls beguile, And to their ruin flatter them, the while Their homeward bark was sailing swiftly past; And thus the peril they behind them cast, But yet a nobler cunning Orpheus used: 97. ALMS, Law of In alms regard thy means, and others' merit. Join hands with God to make a man to live. Man is God's image; but a poor man is Christ's stamp to boot: both images re- God reckons for him, counts the favor His: 98. AMBITION, Cheat of Hath not such gems. Earth's constellated To win thee is to die! Horatius Bonar. It hath no features. In its face is set A mirror, and the gazer sees his own. To rise by human weaknesses. His nights And what is its reward? At best, a name ! Praise-when the ear has grown too dull to hear, [dead; Gold-where the senses it should please are Wreaths-where the hair they cover has grown gray, Fame when the heart it should have thrill'd is numb; All things but love-when love is all we want; And close behind comes Death, and ere we know That ev'n these unavailing gifts are ours, 99. AMBITION, Check to. fin'd: Go, climb the rugged Alps, ambitious fool, "Death only this mysterious truth unfolds, The mighty soul, how small a body holds." Juvenal, tr. by John Dryden. 100. AMBITION, Christian. "Ambition is the vice of noble souls!" If 'tis a vice, then let those souls beware, Thrice noble though they be, and passing fair In the world's eye, and high upon the scrolls, Her favor'd minions where the world enrolls, Lest it conduct to shame! Be thine the care, Soldier of Christ, that nobler strife to dare, Which the rash spirit of the world controls, And makes ambition virtue! Be it thine shine To win thy bright unfading diadem By works of love! Around his brows shall [beam, In heaven from glory's source the purest Whose aspect here, with beauty most divine, Reflects the image of the GOOD SUPREME. Bp. Mant. 101. AMBITION, Curse of. Woe to thee, wild Ambition! I employ Despair's low notes thy dread effects to tell; Born in high heaven, her peace thou could'st destroy; But for thee, there had not been a hell. Through the celestial domes thy clarion pealed; [ranged Angels, entranced, beneath thy banners And straight were fiends; hurled from the shrinking field, They waked in agony to wail the change. Darting through all her veins the subtle fire, The world's fair mistress first inhaled thy breath; To lot of higher beings learned to aspire, 102. AMBITION, Devil of. How, like a mounting devil in the heart, Rules the unrein'd ambition! Let it once But play the monarch, and its haughty brow Glows with a beauty that bewilders thought And unthrones peace forever. Putting on The very pomp of Lucifer, it turns The heart to ashes, and with not a spring Left in the bosom for the spirit's lip, We look upon our splendor and forget [life The thirst for which we perish! Yet hath Many a falser idol. N. P. Willis. What though we wade in wealth, or soar in Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? Earth's highest station ends in "Here he [lies " fame ? And "Dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. Edward Young. 104. AMBITION, Example of. On what foundations stands the warrior's pride, [cide: How just his hopes, let Swedish Charles deA frame of adamant, a soul of fire, No dangers fright him, and no labors tire; O'er love, o'er fear, extends his wide domain, Unconquered lord of pleasure and of pain. No joys to him pacific sceptres yield, War sounds the trump, he rushes to the field; Behold surrounding kings their power comAnd one capitulate, and one resign; [bine, Peace courts his hand, but spreads her charms in vain; "Think nothing gained," he cries, "till naught remain, On Moscow's walls till Gothic standards fly, 105. AMBITION, Examples of. Napoleon, Frederic, Charles, and Cromwell— these [fire, Swept the earth with a besom dipped in They would have kings and nations bend their knees; [higher, Their's was the untamed thirst of something An energy of hope, that could not tire, The love of self to deeds of might sublimed, Ambition wrought to habitudes of ire, Force, reckless force, unchecked, unbent, untimed, [never climbed. An aim to gain a height where power had They sought they knew not what,—they set no bound [ing grew, To their wide-clenching grasp,-their longAs grew their empire,-keenly, as the hound Catches the deer-track in the morning dew, They snuffed the scent of conquest,-victory threw wave Her laurels at their feet-awhile they gave Blood to the earth like water,-madly flew Their gore-fed eagles. But the wildest [in the grave. Breaks and subsides at last; their end was Now they are dust and ashes; other swarms People the ground they wasted, other men Rise to be torn and tossed by other storms. Ambition sleeps a moment in her den To gain new breath, and fire, and strength; [flame. She blows the embered coals, and they are So it must be, for it hath ever been:Age rolls on age, and heroes are the same,The rest, the crowd, the mob, the warlike but then hunter's game. J. G. Percival. 106. AMBITION, Fever of. No rare immortal remnant of my thought 107. AMBITION, Fling Away. By that sin fell the angels: how can man then, Still, in thy right hand, carry gentle peace, Wm. Shakespeare. 109. AMBITION, Mortification of. For when I feel my virtue fail, 110. AMBITION, True. Leaves gross Nature's sediments below, 111. AMBITION, Works of. It opened the niggard's purse; clothed nakedness; Gave beggars food; and threw the Pharisee It struck the feather on the gay coquette, Abortively; though sometimes not unpraised. hell, And grew religious as he grew in fame. 112. AMERICA, Fame of. On History's wide page! Let all the blasts of fame ring out- 'Tis stamped upon the dullest brain, Where Freedom's to be won; Land of the West! it stands aloneIt is thy Washington! Eliza Cook. 113. AMERICA, Liberty in. "Here," might they say, "shall power's divided reign Evince that patriots have not bled in vain. Here godlike liberty's herculean youth, Cradled in peace, and nurtur'd up by truth To full maturity of nerve and mind, Shall crush the giants that bestride mankind. Here shall religion's pure and balmy draught In form no more from cups of state be quaff'd, [sect, But flow for all through nation, rank, and Free as that heaven its tranquil waves reflect. Around the columns of the public shrine Shall growing arts their gradual wreath intwine, [braid, Nor breathe corruption from the flowering Nor mine that fabric which they bloom to shade. No longer here shall Justice bound her view, Or wrong the many, while she rights the few; But take her range through all the social frame, Pure and pervading as that vital flame [part, Which warms at once our best and meanest And thrills a hair while it expands a heart." Thomas Moore. 114. AMERICA, Mission of. The queen of the world, and child of the Columbia, Columbia, to glory arise, [skies! Thy genius commands thee; with rapture While ages on ages thy splendors unfold. behold, Thy reign is the last and the noblest of time, Most fruitful thy soil, most inviting thy clime; [thy name, Let the crimes of the east ne'er encrimson Be freedom and science and virtue thy fame. To conquest and slaughter let Europe aspire; Whelm nations in blood, and wrap cities in fire; [fend, Thy heroes the rights of mankind shall deAnd triumph pursue them, and glory attend. A world is thy realm; for a world be thy laws, [cause; Enlarged as thine empire, and just as thy On Freedom's broad basis that empire shall rise, [skies. Extend with the main, and dissolve with the Fair Science her gates to thy sons shall unbar, And the east see thy morn hide the beams of her star, [soar New bards and new sages unrivalled shall To fame unextinguished when time is no more; kind; To thee, the last refuge of virtue designed, Shall fly from all nations the best of man[bring Here grateful to heaven, with transport shall Their incense, more fragrant than odors of spring. Nor less shall thy fair ones to glory ascend, And genius and beauty in harmony blend; The graces of form shall awake pure desire, And the charms of the soul ever cherish the fire; [refined, Their sweetness unmingled, their manners And virtue's bright image, enstamped on the mind, With peace and soft rapture shall teach life to glow, And light up a smile on the aspect of woe. Thy fleets to all regions thy power shall dis play, The nations admire, and the ocean obey; Each shore to thy glory its tribute unfold, And the east and the south yield their spices and gold. As the day-spring unbounded thy splendor 115. AMERICA, Prophesy of In happy climes, where from the genial sun In happy climes, the seat of innocence, Where Nature guides, and virtue rules, Where men shall not impose for truth and The pedantry of courts and schools. [sense There shall be sung another Golden Age, The rise of empire and of arts, Not such as Europe breeds in her decay; Such as she bred when fresh and young, When heavenly flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring in the last. George Berkeley. 116. AMUSEMENTS, Empty. Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law, Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw: Some livelier plaything gives his youth deA little louder, but as empty quite: [light, Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage, And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age: Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before, Till tir'd he sleeps, and life's poor play is o'er. Alexander Pope. 117. ANCESTRY, Boasting of. Boast not the titles of your ancestors, Brave youths; they're their possessions, none of yours; When your own virtues equal'd have their names, Twill be but fair to lean upon their fames; By which you're planted, shows your fruit Ben Jonson. 118. ANCESTRY, Pride of. English and Irish, French and Spanish, In one conglomeration! So subtle a tangle of blood, indeed, Depend upon it, my snobbish friend, 119. ANGELS, Care of the. Still to guard us night and day, When we drift toward sheer despair, As an angel strengthened Him, |