LAW OF LOVE.

ANONYMOUS.

A brother errs-wherefore bring
The carnal weapons sure to kill?
These only rouse a serpent's sting,
And not the law of love fulfil.

The tender language of the soul,
Where love in every word is seen,
Will passion's raging flames control
And back to truth and virtue win.

GENTLE WORDS.

ANONYMOUS.

Those words that breathe of tenderness
And words we know are true,

Are warmer than the summer time,
And brighter than the dew ?

HOSPITALITY.

GOLDSMITH.

Blest be the spot, where cheerful guests retire To pause from toil, and trim their evening fire: Blest that abode, where want and pain repair,

And every stranger finds a ready chair;

Blest be those feasts with simple plenty crowned,
Where all the ruddy family around

Laugh at the jest or pranks that never fail,
Or sigh with pity at some mournful tale;
Or press the bashful stranger to his food,
And learn the luxury of doing good.

FORGIVENESS.

When on a fragrant sandal tree,
The woodman's axe descends,
And she who blooms so beauteously,
Beneath the weapon bends-

E'en on the edge that wrought her death,
Dying, she breathes her sweetest breath,
As if to token in her fall,

Peace to her foes, and love to all.

How hardly man this lesson.learns!

To smile and bless the hand that spurns ;

To see the blow, to feel the pain,

And render only love again!

One had it--but He came from heaven.

Reviled, rejected and betrayed,

No curse he breathed, no 'plaint he made:
But when in death's dark pang he sighed,
Prayed for his murderers, and died!

Soon War, old tyrant, bloody-faced and pale,
Shall yield his breath, run over by the rail:
Crushed by the car of steam no more to rise,
To fill the world with tears and agonies.

MACKAY.

FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE.

AKENSIDE.

Is aught so fair

In all the dewy landscapes of the Spring.
In the bright eye of Hesper or the morn,
In Nature's fairest forms, is aught so fair
As virtuous friendship as the candid blush
Of him who strives with fortune to be just?
The graceful tear that streams for other's woes?
Or the mild majesty of private life,
Where Peace with everblooming olives crowns
The gate; where Honor's liberal hands effuse
Unenvied treasures, and the snowy wings
Of Innocence and Love protect the scene?

COMPASSION IN GOD ETERNAL.

COWPER.

Man may dismiss compassion from his heart,
But God will never.

INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE.

BEATTIE.

Nor less to regulate man's mortal frame,
Science exerts her all-composing sway.
Flutters thy breast with fear or pants for fame,
Or pines, to indolence and spleen a prey,

Or avarice, a friend more fierce than they?
Flee to the shades of Academus' grove;

Where cares molest not! discord melts away

In harmony, and the pure passions prove

How sweet the words of truth breathed from the lips of love.

LOVE'S PANEGYRIC.

CHAPMAN.

'Tis nature's second sun,

Causing a spring of virtues where he shines;
And as without the Sun, the world's Great Eye,
All colors, beauties, both of art and nature,
Are given in vain to man, so without Love

All beauties bred in women are in vain,

All virtues born in men lie buried;

For Love informs them as the Sun doth colors.

FORGIVENESS.

DRYDEN.

Great souls forgive not injuries till time
Has put their enemies into their power,
That they may show forgiveness is their own.

GIVEN TO LOVE AND KINDNESS.

BEATTIE.

And from the prayer of want, and plaint of wo,

O never, never turn away thine ear,

Forlorn in this bleak wilderness below,

Ah! what were man, should Heaven refuse to hear!

To others do, (the law is not severe,)

What to thyself thou wishest to be done;

Forgive thy foes, and love thy parents dear;

And friends and native land; nor those alone;

All human weal and wo learn thou to make thine own.

MERCIFUL JUGDMENT.

SHAKSPEARE.

How would you be,

If He, who is the top of Judgment, should
But judge as you do? O, think on that:
And mercy then will breathe within your lips,
Like man new made.

WHAT IS THIS LOVE?

DARCY.

What is this subtle searching flame of love,
That penetrates the tender breast unmasked,
And blasts the heart of adamant within;
As the quick lightning oft calcines the blade
Of tempered steel, and leaves the sheath unhurt