I see the wrong that round me lies, I feel the guilt within,
I hear, with groan and travail-cries, The world confess its sin.
Yet, in the maddening maze of things, And tossed by storm and flood, To one fixed stake my spirit clings; I know that God is good!
Not mine to look where cherubim And seraphs may not see, But nothing can be good in Him Which evil is in me.
The wrong that pains my soul below I dare not throne above;
I know not of His hate,-I know His goodness and His love.
I dimly guess, from blessings known, Of greater out of sight,
And, with the chastened Psalmist, own His judgments too are right.
I long for household voices gone, For vanished smiles I long; But God hath led my dear ones on, And He can do no wrong.
I know not what the future hath Of marvel or surprise,
Assured alone that life and death His mercy underlies.
And, if my heart and flesh are weak To bear an untried pain, The bruised reed He will not break, But strengthen and sustain.
No offering of my own I have, Nor works my faith to prove ; I can but give the gifts He gave, And plead His love for love.
And so, beside the Silent Sea, I wait the muffled oar;
No harm from Him can come to me On ocean or op shore.
I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
O brothers! if my faith is vain, If hopes like these betray,
Pray for me that my feet may gain
The sure and safer way.
And Thou, O Lord, by whom are seen Thy creatures as they be, Forgive me if too close I lean
My human heart on Thee!
BIOGRAPHICAL AND TOPICAL.
Addison, Joseph, b. at Milston, in 1672; entered Queen's College, Ox- ford; a good scholar and a writer of Latin verse; intended for the Church, but Halifax persuaded him to enter the service of the state; a pension of £300 in 1699; visited France and Italy; lost the pension, and returned 1703; wrote The Campaign in praise of Marlborough; under-secretary of state in 1706; M. P. in 1708; secretary to Lord Wharton, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, with salary of £2000, 1709; began with Steele The Spectator-a daily from March 1, 1711, to December, 1712, and revived as a tri-weekly in 1714. Again secretary to Lord Lieuten- ant of Ireland; took his seat at the Board of Trade in 1715, and began The Freeholder; married the countess- dowager of Warwick in 1716, and lived three years to regret it; secretary of state, 1717; d. 1719... .195, 219-24 Adhelm, b. about 656, in Wessex; taught by the learned Adrian; entered the monastery at Malmesbury at the age of sixteen; afterwards abbot; went to Rome; upon his return helped to settle the dispute concerning the celebration of Easter: d. 707........ 28 Ælfred, b. in Berkshire 848; sent at the age of five to Rome and again at the age of seven; remained there a year; came to the throne, 871; driven by the Danes from it; routed them at Ed- dington, 878; was recognized as king of all England, 886; rebuilt London that year; kingdom again invaded by
the Danes, 894; Elfred defeated them in several battles, and drove them from the island; is said by some to have founded Oxford; d. 901.... 32-34. Ælfric, the grammarian," studied at Abington; went thence to Winchester; became a monk; bishop of Wilton; Archbishop of Canterbury, 995; d. 1006.. 34 American Literature, Prose.. 320-365 Poetry. 429-460 Ascham, Roger, b. about 1515; took his B.A. at Cambridge, 1534; college lecturer on Greek in 1537; Toxophilus, 1544; famous for his penmanship; tutor to princess Elizabeth; Latin Sec- retary to Queens Mary and Elizabeth; The Schoolmaster published by his widow, 1570; believed that boys could be lured to learning by love better than driven to it by beating; d. 1568 73 Austen, Miss, b. at Steventon, 1775; educated by her father; novels pic- ture the life of the middle classes; Scott says that her talent for describ- ing the characters of ordinary life was most wonderful; d. 1817... 269 Bacon, Lord, b. at London, 1561, son of Sir Nicholas Bacon, and nephew of Lord Burleigh; studied at Cambridge; visited France; returned to England at his father's death, 1579; admitted to the bar, 1582; M. P., 1589, and sat in every Parliament till 1614; was a noted speaker. "The fear of every man who heard him was, that he should make an end," says Ben Jonson; was counsellor-extraordinary
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