Part 94 (1/2)

Great thoughts, great feelings, came to them, Like instincts, unawares.

A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet.

BRYAN W. PROCTOR.

_The Sea_.

The sea! the sea! the open sea!

The blue, the fresh, the ever free!

I never was on the dull, tame sh.o.r.e, But I loved the great sea more and more.

ALFRED TENNYSON.

_Locksley Hall_.

He will hold thee, when his pa.s.sion shall have spent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.

I will take some savage woman, she shall rear my dusky race.

Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay.

_In Memoriam_. xxvii.

'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

_Fatima_. St. 3.