May sit undimmed! a gladness rest his own,
Unspeakable, and to the world unknown!
Such as from childhood's morning land of dreams
Remembered faintly, gleams,

Faintly remembered, and too swiftly flown!

So let him walk with Thee,
Made by Thy spirit free;

And when Thou callest him from his mortal place
To his last hour be still, be still that sweetness given,
That joyful trust, and brightly let him part,

With lamp clear burning, and unlingering heart,

Mature to meet in heaven

His Savior's face!

LOVE IMMORTAL.

BEATTIE.

Shall I be left abandoned in the dust,

When Fate, relenting, lets the flower revive?
Shall nature's voice, to man alone unjust,
Bid him, though doomed to perish, hope to live?
Is it for this fair Virtue oft must strive

With disappointment, penury and pain?

No; Heaven's immortal spring shall yet arrive,
And man's majestic beauty bloom again,

Bright through the eternal year of Love's triumphant

reign.

Curved is the line of Beauty,

Strait is the line of Duty,

Walk by the last and thou wilt see
The first forever follow thee.

FRIENDLY LOVE.

CHAUCER.

Love of friendship also there is
Which maketh no man do amiss;

Of will yknit betwixten two,

That will not break for wele ne woe;
Which long is likely to contune, 1
When will and good been in commune,
Grounded by Godde's ordinance,
All whole withouten discordance,
With them yholding commance, 2
Of all their good in charity; 3
That there be none exception
Through changing of intention;
That each help other at their need,
And wisely hele both word and deed;
True of meaning devoid of sloth,
For wit is nought withouten truth;
So that the one dare all his thought
Say to his friend, and sparen nought,
As to himself, without dreading
To be discovered by uraying, 6
For glad is that congunction

1 Contune--continue. 2 Commance-companionship.
otherly love. 4 Hele--conceal. 5 Wit--understanding.
betraying.

3 Charity6 T-pipe

Where there is no suspection

Betwixten them whom they would prove,

That true and perfect were in love;

For no man may be amiable

But if he be 1 so firm and stable

2

That fortune change him not, nor blind,
But that his friend alway him find,
Both poor and rich, in one estate;
For if his friend through any gate
Will complain of his poverty,
He should not bide so long till he
Of his helping doth him require;
For good deed done through prayer,
Is sold and bought too dear i-wis
To heart that of great value is ;
For heart fulfilled of gentleness
Can evil demean 5 his distress;
And man, that worthy is of name,
Lo asken often hath great shame.

3

A good man burneth in his thought
For shame when that he asketh aught;
He hath great thought, and dreadeth age
For his disease 6 when he shall pray
His friend lest that he warned 7 be
Till he prove his stability:
But when that he hath founden one
That trusty is, and true as stone

And hath assayed him at all,

And found him steadfast as a wall,

And of his friendship be certain

He shall him show-both joy and pain,

1 But if he be--unless he be. 2 Any gate-any mode or means. 3 Prayer, en'reaty. 4 I-vis certainly. 5 Demean-complain of. 6 Disease, vexation. 7 Warned, refused.

And all that he dare think or say,
Withouten shame as he well may;
For how should he ashamed be

Of such a one as I told thee?

For when he not his secret thought,

The third shall know thereof right nought;
For tway in number is bet than three

In every counsel and secre:
Reproof he dreadeth never a deal
Who that beset his wordes well,

For every wise man out of drede
Can keep his tongue till he see need.

And foole's cannot hold their tongue;

A foole's bell is soon yrung;

Yet shall a true friend doen more

To help his fellow of his sore,

And succour him when he hath need

In all that he may do indeed,

And gladden that he him pleaseth
Than his fellow that he easeth :
And if he do not his request,
He shall as muchel him molest 1
As his fellow, because that he
May not fulfil his volonte 2
All fully as he hath required.

If both the hearte's love hath fired
Both joy and woe they shall depart,
And take evenly each his part;
Half his annoy he shall have aye,
And comfort him what that he may,
And of his blisse part shall be,

If love willen departed be.

3

1 Him molest, he will as much distress himself. 2 Volonte, will, desire. 3 Depart, divide.

LOVE PREFERRED TO FAME.

TUCKERMAN.

A loving eye beguiles me more

Than fame's emblazoned seal, And one sweet note of tenderness Than triumph's wildest peal.

Give me the boon of love!

The path of fame is drear,
And glory's arch doth ever span
A hill-side cold and sere.

One wild-flower from the path of love,
All lowly though it lie,

Is dearer than the wreath that waves

To stern ambition's eye.

Give me the boon of love!

The lamp of fame shines far,

But love's soft light glows near and warm—

A

pure and household star.

One tender glance can fill the soul

With a perennial fire;

But glory's flame burns fitfully-
A lone funereal pyre.

Give me the boon of love!

Fame's trumpet-strains depart ;

But love's sweet lute breathes melody
That lingers in the heart.

And the scroll of fame will burn
When sea and earth consume,

But the rose of love in a happier sphere,
Will live in deathless bloom!