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ustified. 1948 DRYDEN: _Medals,_ Line 207. =Treasure.= The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasure. 1949 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 398. =Trees.= Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look On a departing lover--most serene. 1950 ROBERT BROWNING: _Pauline,_ Line 726. The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them. 1951 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Forest Hymn._ Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. 1952 HENRY VAUGHAN: _The Timber._ A brotherhood of venerable trees. 1953 WORDSWORTH: _Sonnet composed at ---- Castle._ =Trial.= We learn through trial. 1954 MARGARET J. PRESTON: _Attainment,_ St. 7. =Trifles.= Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. 1955 HANNAH MORE: _Sensibility._ Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year; And trifles life. 1956 YOUNG: _Love of Fame,_ Satire vi., Line 193. =Triumph.= Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master, and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? 1957 ROBERT BROWNING: _The Ring and the Book,_ Line 1185. =Trouble.= Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 1958 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. 1959 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. =Truth.= Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. 1960 CHAUCER: _The Frankeleines Tale,_ Line 11789. O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. 1961 SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: The eternal years of God are hers. 1962 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Battle-field._ Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 1963 HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 13. Truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd, needs only to be seen. 1964 DRYDEN: _Hind and Panther,_ Pt. i., Line 33. He is the freeman whom the truth makes
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