LAW OF LOVE. ANONYMOUS. A brother errs-wherefore bring The tender language of the soul, GENTLE WORDS. ANONYMOUS. Those words that breathe of tenderness Are warmer than the summer time, 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, Laugh at the jest or pranks that never fail, FORGIVENESS. When on a fragrant sandal tree, E'en on the edge that wrought her death, 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: Soon War, old tyrant, bloody-faced and pale, MACKAY. FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE. AKENSIDE. Is aught so fair In all the dewy landscapes of the Spring. COMPASSION IN GOD ETERNAL. COWPER. Man may dismiss compassion from his heart, INFLUENCE OF SCIENCE. BEATTIE. Nor less to regulate man's mortal frame, Or avarice, a friend more fierce than they? 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; 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 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 WHAT IS THIS LOVE? DARCY. What is this subtle searching flame of love, |