Part 22 (1/2)

Thanks for the heavenly message brought by thee, Child of the wandering sea.

Cast from her lap, forlorn!

From thy dead lips a clearer note is born Than ever Triton blew from wreathed horn!

While on mine ear it rings, Through the deep caves of thought I hear a voice that sings:--

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

Let each new temple, n.o.bler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown sh.e.l.l by life's unresting sea!

--_Oliver Wendell Holmes._

[35] Copyrighted by Houghton, Mifflin & Co. Reprinted by permission of the publishers.

PRESIDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY

TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE OF OAKLAND, CAL. MAY 24, 1901

”There is nothing better for the United States than EDUCATED CITIZENs.h.i.+P; and, my young friends, there never was a time in all our history when knowledge was so essential to success as now. Everything requires knowledge. What we want of the young people now is exact knowledge. You want to know whatever you undertake to do a little better than anybody else. And if you will do that, then there is nothing that is not within your reach.

And what you want besides education is CHARACTER--CHARACTER! There is nothing that will serve a young man or an old man so well as good character. And did you ever think that it is just as easy to form a good habit as it is to form a bad one; and it is just as hard to break a good habit as it is to break a bad one? So get the good ones and keep them. With EDUCATION and CHARACTER you will not only achieve individual success, but you will contribute largely to the progress of your country.”

BRIEF MEMORY GEMS AND PROVERBS.

FIRST AND SECOND GRADES.

If at first you don't succeed, Try, try again.

Be kind and be gentle To those who are old, For dearer is kindness And better than gold.

Sing, pretty birds, and build your nests, The fields are green, the skies are clear; Sing, pretty birds, and build your nests, The world is glad to have you here.

A friend in need is a friend indeed.

If a task is once begun, Never leave it till it's done; Be the labor great or small, Do it well or not at all.