Alas! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off,
Like ships that have gone down at sea,
When heaven was all tranquillity.
_All that's bright must fade_.
All that's bright must fade--
The brightest still the fleetest;
All that's sweet was made
But to be lost when sweetest.
* * * * *
_Farewell! But whenever you welcome the hour_.
You may break, you may shatter the vase, if you will,
But the scent of the roses will hang round it still.
* * * * *
REGINALD HEBER.
1783-1826.
_Christman Hymn_.
Brightest and best of the sons of the morning!
Dawn on our darkness, and lend us thine aid.
* * * * *
_Missionary Hymn_.
From Greenland's icy mountains,
From India's coral strand,
Where Afric's sunny fountains
Roll down their golden sand.
* * * * *
_Palestine_.
No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;
Like some tall palm, the mystic fabric sprung.
Majestic silence!
JONATHAN M. SEWALL.
_Epilogue to Cato_.
_Written for the Bow Street Theatre, Portsmouth_, N.
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