Somewhere there waiteth in this world of ours Each chasing each through all the weary hours, Then blend they like green leaves and golden flowers And life's long night is ended, and the way EDWIN ARNOLD Man and woman, standing in the presence of your first true love, do not fear anything that love can bring. Passion might fly out of the window when poverty comes in at the door; but love will stand by you while life holds on, and then it will plume its wings, and go with you into the eternal life. ROBERT COLLYER Week Twelfth BROTHERHOOD Prelude THE SOUL Come, Brother, turn with me from pining thought And all the inward ills that sin has wrought; Come, send abroad a love for all who live, And feel the deep content in turn they give. Kind wishes and good deeds,- they make not poor; They'll home again, full laden, to thy door; The streams of love flow back where they begin, And thy faint spirit drink the cooling stream, Around the self-starved soul has spread a dearth. Man's varied powers and raise him from the brute. And shall the earth of higher ends be full,Earth which thou tread'st, and thy poor mind be dull? Thou talk of life, with half thy soul asleep? Through thy soul's shut-up mansion. Wouldst thou know Something of what is life, shake off this death; With which all nature's quick, and learn to be RICHARD HENRY DANA |