John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Sir Edwin Arnold. (1832–1904) (continued) |
| 7710 |
| What good I see humbly I seek to do And live obedient to the law, in trust That what will come and must come will come well. |
| The Light of Asia. |
| 7711 |
| We are the voices of the wandering wind, Which moan for rest and rest can never find; Lo! as the wind is, so is mortal life, A moan, a sigh, a sob, a storm, a strife. |
| The Deva’s Song. |
| Elizabeth Akers Allen. (1832–1911) |
| 7712 |
| Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight! Make me a child again, just for to-night! |
| Rock me to sleep. |
| 7713 |
| Backward, flow backward, O tide of the years! I am so weary of toil and of tears,— Toil without recompense, tears all in vain! Take them, and give me my childhood again! |
| Rock me to sleep. |
| 7714 |
| Behold, we live through all things,—famine, thirst, Bereavement, pain; all grief and misery, All woe and sorrow; life inflicts its worst On soul and body,—but we can not die, Though we be sick and tired and faint and worn,— Lo, all things can be borne! |
| Endurance. |
| Adam Lindsay (Lionel Gordon) Gordon. (1833–1870) |
| 7715 |
| Life is mostly froth and bubble; Two things stand like stone:— Kindness in another’s trouble, Courage in our own. |
| Ye weary Wayfarer. Finis Exoptatus. |