XXXIV. FILL up each hour with what will last; -H. Bonar. XXXV. Do not look for wrong and evil,- Look for goodness, look for gladness, If you bring a smiling visage Alice Cary. XXXVI.-FORGIVENESS. Go show the bee that stung your hand, -Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt. 100 GRADED SELECTIONs for memORIZING. XXXVII. WHEN the glad hours of youth's bright day May age to me prove kind; And bring me on its pinions swift A calm, contented mind. -Miss Mamie S. Paden. XXXVIII. Он, many a shaft, at random sent, May soothe, or wound, a heart that's broken! -Walter Scott. GRADED SELECTIONS. SIXTH YEAR, I.-LONGFELLOW'S ADVICE TO PUPILS.* "LIVE up to the best that is in you; live noble lives, as you all may, in whatever condition you may find yourselves, so that your epitaph may be that of Euripides: This monument does not make thee famous, O Euripides! but thou makest this monument famous.'” II. HOWE'ER it be, it seems to me, -Tennyson: "Lady Clara Vere de Vere." * Extract from a letter by H. W. Longfellow, on the occasion of the celebration of the poet's birthday by the pupils of the Cincinnati Public Schools. III. GOD hath a presence, and that you may see In the sun of the noonday, the star of the night; In the waves of the ocean, the furrows of land; Turn where ye may, from the sky to the sod, IV. I LIVE for those who love me, I live to hail that season, By gifted minds foretold, When man to man united, And every wrong thing righted, I live for those who love me, For the cause that lacks assistance, And the good that I can do. -Dublin University Magazine. V. WE shape ourselves the joy or fear The tissue of the Life to be, We weave with colors all our own; And in the field of Destiny We reap as we have sown. -John G. Whittier: "Raphael." |