Thomson, void of rhyme as well as reason,
How could'st thou thus poor human nature hum?
There 's no such season.
1788
HOOD: _Spring._

=Stage.=

All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
1789
SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 7.

=Stars.=

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.
1790
SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act v., Sc. 4.

The stars of the night
Will lend thee their light,
Like tapers clear without number!
1791
HERRICK: _Aph. Night Piece, To Julia._

Ye stars! which are the poetry of Heaven,
If in your bright leaves we would read the fate
Of men and empires,--'t is to be forgiven,
That in our aspirations to be great,
Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state,
And claim a kindred with you.
1792
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 88.

Now only here and there a little star
Looks forth alone.
1793
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Constellations._

=State.=

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state:
An hour may lay it in the dust.
1794
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto ii., St. 84.

=Statesman.=

An honest statesman to a prince,
Is like a cedar planted by a spring;
The spring bathes the tree's root, the grateful tree
Rewards it with his shadow.
1795
WEBSTER: _Duchess of Malfi,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Steed.=

Hurrah, hurrah for Sheridan!
Hurrah, hurrah for horse and man!
And when their statues are placed on high,
Under the dome of the Union sky,--
The American soldier's Temple of Fame,--
There with the glorious General's name
Be it said in letters both bold and bright:
"Here is the steed that saved the day
By carrying Sheridan into the fight,
From Winchester,--twenty miles away!"
1796
THOMAS BUCHANAN READ: _Sheridan's Ride._

=Stones.=

Put a tongue
In every wound of Caesar that should move
The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny.
1797
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Storms.=

We often see, against some storm,
A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still,
The bold winds speechless, and the orb below
As hush as death.
1798
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants his footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm.
1799
COWPER: _Light Shining out of Darkness._

Nail to the mast her holy flag,
Set