John Bartlett (18201905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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John James Ingalls. (18331900)
7721 The purification of politics is an iridescent dream.
Epigram.
7722 Every man is the center of a circle, whose fatal circumference he can not pass.
Eulogy on Benjamin Hill, United States Senate, Jan. 23, 1882.
Edmund Clarence Stedman. (18331908)
7723 I dare aver He is a brave discoverer Of climes his elders do not know. He has more learning than appears On the scroll of twice three thousand years.
The Discoverer.
7724 Crops failed; wealth took a flight; house, treasure, land, Slipped from my holdthus plenty comes and goes. One friend I had, but he too loosed his hand (Or was it I?) the year I met with Rose.
The World well lost.
7725 Give me to die unwitting of the day, And stricken in Lifes brave heat, with senses clear!
Mors Benefica.
Sir Lewis Morris. (18331907)
7726 The wind that sighs before the dawn Chases the gloom of night, The curtains of the East are drawn, And suddenlyt is light.
Le Vent de lEsprit.
7727 The love of the Right, tho cast down, the hate of victorious Ill, All are sparks from the central fire of a boundless beneficent will.
A new Orphic Hymn.