nd birthright are.
296
E.C. STEDMAN: _Beyond the Portals,_ Pt. 10.

=Charity.=

Charity itself fulfils the law,
And who can sever love from charity?
297
SHAKS.: _Love's L. Lost,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Alas for the rarity
Of Christian charity
Under the sun!
298
HOOD: _Bridge of Sighs._

=Charms.=

Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.
299
POPE: _R. of the Lock,_ Canto v., Line 34.

=Chastity.=

So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity,
That when a soul is found sincerely so,
A thousand liveried angels lackey her.
300
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 453.

=Chatterton.=

I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,
The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride.
Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy,
Following his plough along the mountain side.
301
WORDSWORTH: _Res. and Indep.,_ St. 7.

=Chaucer.=

Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,
On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.
302
SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. iv., Canto ii., St. 32.

=Cheating.=

Doubtless the pleasure is as great,
Of being cheated as to cheat.
303
BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto iii., Line 1.

=Cheerfulness.=

It is good
To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.
304
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Legend of Brittany,_ Pt. i., St. 35.

=Chickens.=

To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,
And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd.
305
BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 923.

=Chiding.=

Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,
When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.
306
SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Sc. 4.

=Child--Childhood--Children.=

Ah! what would the world be to us
If the children were no more?
We should dread the desert behind us
Worse than the dark before.
307
LONGFELLOW: _Children._

Behold the child, by nature's kindly law,
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
308
POPE: _Essay on Man._ Epis. ii., Line 275.

The child is father of the man.
309
WORDSWORTH: _My Heart Leaps,_ Line 7.

Children are the keys of Paradise.
They alone are good and wise,
Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer
310
R.H. STODDARD: _The Children's Prayer._

I have had playmates, I have had companions,
In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days.
All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.
311
CHARLES LAMB: _Old Familiar Faces._

As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.
312
MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iv., Line 330.

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