, O Temperance, that we owe
All pleasures that from health and strength can flow;
Vigor of body, purity of mind,
Unclouded reason, sentiment refined."
--_Chandler_.
There the Wicked Cease from Troubling
and the Weary are at Rest. 184 S.A.
"To lie within the light of God,
as I lie upon your breast--
And the wicked cease from troubling
and the weary are at rest."
--_Tennyson, The May Queen_.
Threescore Years and Ten. 104 S.A.
"Worn to a thread by threescore years and ten."
--_Browning The Ring and the Book_.
To Eat Husks. 203 L.J.
"You would think that I had a hundred and fifty
tattered prodigals lately come from swine
keeping, from eating draft and husks."
--_Shakespeare, I Henry IV 4:2_.
To Everything There is a Season. 243 S.A.
"There is a time for all things."
--_Shakespeare. Comedy of Errors 2:2_.
To Touch His Garments. 140 L.J.
"The world sits at the feet of Christ,
Unknowing, blind and unconsoled.
It yet shall touch his garment's fold
And feel the heavenly alchemist
Transform its very dust to gold."
--_Anonymous_.
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Treading the Winepress. 476 S.A.
"But ye that have seen how the ages have shrunk
from my rod, And how red is the winepress
wherein at my bidding they trod."
--_The Paradox_.
The Tree of Knowledge. 19 T.J.
"Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit
Of that forbidden tree, whose Mortal taste
Brought death into the World and all our woe
. . .
Sing Heavenly Muse."
--_Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I_.
Truth Endureth Forever. 139 S.A.
"It fortifies my soul to know
That, though I perish, Truth is so:
That, howsoe'er I stray and range,
Whate'er I do Thou dost not change.
I steadier step when I recall
That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall."
--_Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia_.
The Unknown God. 407 L.J.
"Greece, Egypt, Rome,--did any god
Before whose feet men knelt unshod
Deem that in this unblest abode
Another scarce mor
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