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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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William Allen Butler. (1825–1902)
 
7556
    No record of her high descent
  There needs, nor memory of her name;
Enough that Raphael’s colors blent
  To give her features deathless fame.
          Incognita of Raphael.
7557
    Really and truly—I’ve nothing to wear.
          Nothing to Wear.
 
Richard Henry Stoddard. (1825–1903)
 
7558
    We have two lives about us,
  Two worlds in which we dwell,
Within us and without us,
  Alternate Heaven and Hell:—
Without, the somber Real,
Within, our hearts of hearts, the beautiful Ideal.
          The Castle in the Air.
7559
    Silence is the speech of love,
The music of the spheres above.
          Speech of Love.
7560
    Pale in her fading bowers the Summer stands,
Like a new Niobe with claspèd hands,
Silent above the flowers, her children lost,
Slain by the arrows of the early Frost.
          Ode.
7561
    There are gains for all our losses,
  There are balms for all our pain.
          The Flight of Youth.
7562
    Joy may be a miser,
  But Sorrow’s purse is free.
          Persian Song.
7563
    Not what we would, but what we must
  Makes up the sum of living;
Heaven is both more and less than just
  In taking and in giving.
          The Country Life.