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XXXIV.

FILL up each hour with what will last;
Buy up the moments as they go;
The life above, when this is past,
Is the ripe fruit of life below.

-H. Bonar.

XXXV.

Do not look for wrong and evil,-
You will find them if you do;
As you measure for your neighbor
He will measure back to you.

Look for goodness, look for gladness,
You will meet them all the while;

If you bring a smiling visage
To the glass, you meet a smile.

Alice Cary.

XXXVI.-FORGIVENESS.

Go show the bee that stung your hand,
The sweetest flower in all the land;
Then, from its bosom, she will bring
The honey that will cure the sting.

-Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt.

100 GRADED SELECTIONs for memORIZING.

XXXVII.

WHEN the glad hours of youth's bright day
Have fled with noiseless steps away,

May age to me prove kind;

And bring me on its pinions swift
Its rarest and most precious gift,-

A calm, contented mind.

-Miss Mamie S. Paden.

XXXVIII.

Он, many a shaft, at random sent,
Finds mark, the archer little meant!
And many a word, at random spoken,

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,
'Tis only noble to be good.
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.

-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 fold of the flower, the leaf of the tree;

In the sun of the noonday, the star of the night;
In the storm-cloud of darkness, the rainbow of light;

In the waves of the ocean, the furrows of land;
In the mountain of granite, the atom of sand.

Turn where ye may, from the sky to the sod,
Where can ye gaze that ye see not a God?
-Eliza Cook.

IV.

I LIVE for those who love me,
Whose hearts are kind and true,
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit, too;
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
And the good that I can do.

I live to hail that season,

By gifted minds foretold,
When man shall live by reason,
And not alone by gold;

When man to man united,

And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted,
As Eden was of old.

I live for those who love me,
For those who know me true,
For the heaven that smiles above me,
And awaits my spirit, too;

For the cause that lacks assistance,
For the wrong that needs resistance,
For the future in the distance,

And the good that I can do.

-Dublin University Magazine.

V.

WE shape ourselves the joy or fear
Of which the coming life is made,
And fill our Future's atmosphere
With sunshine or with shade.

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."

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