rother's keeper."
--_Ruskin, The Schools of Art in Florence_.
My Cup Runneth Over. 35 S.A.
"Through this concession my full cup runs o'er."
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
My Name is Legion. 139 L.J.
"Does Legion still lurk in him, though
repressed; or has he exorcised that Devil's
Brood?"
--_Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, Chapter 8_.
Noah's Ark. 24 T.J.
"Nobler is a limited command
Given by the love of all your native land,
Than a successive title, long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark."
--_Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel_.
The Nobleman's Son. 92 L.J.
"We do not need Christ's visible presence to
cope with the evils of our times any more than
the father needed it for the cure of his boy."
--_Wm. M. Taylor_.
Now through a Glass Darkly, then Face to Face. 425 S.A.
"I hope to see my Pilot face to face
When I have crost the bar."
--_Tennyson, Crossing the Bar_.
O Generation of Vipers. 65 L.J.
"Is love a generation of vipers?"
--_Shakespeare, Troilus and Cressida 3:1_.
The Olive Leaf. 30 T.J.
"One final deluge to surprise the Ark
Cradled and sleeping on its mountain-top:
Their outbreak-signal--what but the dove's coo,
Back with the olive in her bill for news
Sorrow was over?"
--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
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Out of the Mouth of Babes and Sucklings 22 S.A., 237 L.J.
"He that of greatest works is finisher
Oft does them by the weakest minister:
So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown."
--_Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well 2:1_.
The Pale Horse. 470 S.A.
"Behind her Death,
Close following pace for pace, not mounted yet
On his pale horse."
--_Milton, Paradise Lost_.
Parting of the Waters 184 H.T.
"All things are fitly cared for and the Lord
Will watch as kindly o'er the exodus
Of us his servants now, as in old time.
We have no cloud or fire, and haply we
May not pass dry-shod through the ocean stream;
But, saved or lost, all thi
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