Thou cheerful flower! my spirits play
With kindred glances;

And when at dusk by dews opprest,
Thou sink'st, the image of thy rest
Hath often eased my pensive breast
Of careful sadness.

And all day long I number yet,
All seasons through, another debt,
Which I, wherever thou art met,
To thee am owing;

An instinct call it, a blind sense,
A happy genial influence,

Coming one knows not how nor whence,
Nor whither going.

Child of the year that round dost run
Thy pleasant course,-when day's begun
As ready to salute the sun

As lark or leveret;

Thy long-lost praise thou shalt regain,
Nor be less dear to future men

Than in old time;-thou not in vain

Art Nature's favorite.

Wordsworth.

THERE is danger in the air we breathe, the ground we tread on, but there is protection everywhere. Miss Martineau.

Do not shun the afflicted; there are dispositions in the world, who looking on sorrow as con

tagious, become inhuman through fear.

Listen to tales of woe, with gratitute on your own account and compassion for the sufferers.

Countess Dowager of Carlisle.

REMEMBER, many virtues lie under a rough exterior. Johnson.

THE language of reason, unaccompanied by kindness, will often fail of making an impression. It has no effect on the understanding, because it touches not the heart. The language of kindness, unaccompanied by reason, will frequently be unable to persuade; because though it may gain upon the affections, it wants that which is necessary to convince the judgment. But, let reason and kindness be united in your discourse, and seldom will even pride or prejudice continue to resist.

Gisborne.

To give is to receive, and a sentiment of charity is capable of supplying the glow of fervid youth in the breast of old age.

Life was made for feeling, and apathy to the soul is what cessation of pain is to an inflammation, the certain token of a mortification.

The Gordian Knot.

WHEN you are angry look in the glass. Moralists Medley.

THE love of ruling and the love of accumulating are the two furies which torment mankind beyond all others; they are especially the evils of the religious world, and are more deadly to true religion-the religion of disinterested love -than even that love of mere outward pleasure which distinguishes the irreligious. From the latter evil reformation may be expected; but from the former, evils; when they get fast hold of the will, reformation is not easily brought about. The temptation in great to conceal the love of rule under pretences to humility; and to invest the love of gain in the decent garb of industry, prudence, and economy; and when an evil has been successfully concealed from the eye of man, the transition is easy to the state of saying in the heart, "God hideth his face he will never see it." Hints for Moral Culture.

FORGET injuries and remember benefits; if you grant a favor, forget it; if you receive one, remember it. Moralists Medley.

No vice is more detestable than hypocrisy.

Florian.

AVOID disputes, since nothing is cleared by wranglings; but when opportunity offers support truth and combat error with the arms which our Saviour and the apostles have put into your hands, and which consist in mildness, persuasion, and charity. Ganganelli.

CHARITY, decent, modest, easy, kind,

Softens the high and rears the abject mind,
Knows with just reins and gentle hands to guide
Betwixt vile shame and arbitrary pride;
Soft peace she brings wherever she arrives,
She builds our quiet as she forms our lives,
Lays the rough paths of peevish nature even,
And opens in each heart a little heaven-
E'en constant hope and holy faith shall die,
One lost in certainty, and one in joy;
Whilst thou, more happy power, fair charity,
Triumphant sister, greatest of the three,
Thy office and thy nature still the same,
Lasting thy lamp and unconsumed thy flame,
Shalt stand before the heav'n of heav'n's confest,
For ever blessing, and for ever blest.

Prior.

WHEN the heart is under the influence of Divine Love, its pure, holy, gentle, and heavenly affections impart their influence to the imagination, and make its imagery the scenery of heaven. Every object it represents is full of loveliness

and arrayed in beauty, because the image of some heavenly affection in the regenerate and spiritual mind. Intellectual Repository.

IN the sacred page you will observe that if any virtue is taught with more expressive energy than others, it is humility. Humility that sheds mild lustre over every perfection of character. Humility that teaches man he is but man; that cherishes the grand duties of charity and forbearance, and that would connect the whole human race in the bonds of brotherhood and social love; in short, that confers peace and comfort on us here, and prepares us for immortal glory hereafter. Hewlet's Sermons.

EVERY large gratitude is a compound of small gratitudes; in other words, the general temper and spirit of gratitude is made up of the particular exercises of gratitude, and is thus increased in proportion to the number of particular exercises.

Clowes.

MAN has always something to be grateful for, provided he keeps open the door of communication with his heavenly Father, for at that door all good enters; indeed the very power to open it is an invaluable good.

Ibid.