al Hymn._

Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
1316
LONGFELLOW: _Building of the Ship._

=Peace.=

A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdued,
And neither party loser.
1317
SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see my shadow in the sun.
1318
SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Why prate of peace? when, warriors all,
We clank in harness into hall,
And ever bare upon the board
Lies the necessary sword.
1319
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _The Woodman._

Peace hath her victories,
No less renowned than war.
1320
MILTON: Sonnet xvi.

Peace was on the earth and in the air.
1321
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Ages,_ St. 30.

=Pearls.=

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung.
1322
SIR WILLIAM JONES: _A Persian Song of Hafiz._

=Pen.=

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
1323
BULWER-LYTTON: _Richelieu,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

This dull product of a scoffer's pen.
1324
WORDSWORTH: _Excursion,_ Bk. ii.

=People.=

And what the people but a herd confus'd,
A miscellaneous rabble, who extol
Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?
1325
MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iii., Line 49.

=Perfection.=

One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun.
1326
SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Perjury.=

At lovers' perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs.
1327
SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Perseverance.=

Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
1328
SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Persuasion.=

He from whose lips divine persuasion flows.
1329
POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. vii., Line 143.

=Petitions.=

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
1330
FIELDING: _Tom Thumb the Great,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Philosophy.=

How charming is divine Philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,