iety,
And short retirement urges sweet return.
1758
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 249.

O solitude! where are the charms
That sages have seen in thy face?
Better dwell in the midst of alarms,
Than reign in this horrible place.
1759
COWPER: _Verses supposed to be written by Alex. Selkirk,_ St. 1.

Man dwells apart, though not alone,
He walks among his peers unread;
The best of thoughts which he hath known,
For lack of listeners are not said.
1760
JEAN INGELOW: _Afternoon at a Parsonage, Afterthought._

It was a wild and lonely ride.
Save the hid loon's mocking cry,
Or marmot on the mountain side,
The earth was silent as the sky.
1761
HAMLIN GARLAND: _The Long Trail._

=Son.=

Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand,
No son of mine succeeding.
1762
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

The booby father craves a booby son,
And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.
1763
YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire ii., Line 165.

=Song.=

And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
1764
DRYDEN: _Absalom and Achitophel,_ Pt. i., Line 197.

That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long,
But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song.
1765
POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 340.

For dear to gods and men is sacred song.
Self-taught I sing; by Heaven, and Heaven alone,
The genuine seeds of poesy are sown.
1766
POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xxii., Line 382.

=Sonnet.=

Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned,
Mindless of its just honors; with this key
Shakespeare unlocked his heart.
1767
WORDSWORTH: _Scorn not the Sonnet._

=Sorrow.=

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break.
1768
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir,
That may succeed as his inheritor.
1769
SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

Nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
1770
BAILEY: _Festus,_ Sc. _Home._

This is truth the poet sings,
That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things.
1771
TENNYSON: _Locksley Hall,_ St. 38.

=Soul.=

But whither went his soul, let such relate
Who search the secrets of the future state.
1772
DRYDEN: _Palamon and Arcite,_ Bk. iii., Line 2120.

It is the Soul's prerogative, its fate
To shape the outward to its own estate.
1773
R.H. DANA: _Thoughts on the Soul._

The gods approve
The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul.
1774
WORDSWORTH: