Part 51 (2/2)

--_Shakespeare, Richard II 4:1_.

The Alabaster Box. 169 L.J.

”Thou wilt not let her wash thy dainty feet With such salt thing as tears or with rude hair Dry them.”

--_Lowell, A Legend of Brittany_.

The Angel's Song. 37 L.J.

”Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace, East, west, north and south let the long quarrel cease: Sing the song of great joy that the angels began, Sing of glory to G.o.d and of good will to man!”

--_Whittier, A Christmas Carmen_.

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The Apple of His Eye. 25 S.A.

”Bestows on her too parsimonious lord, An infant for the apple of his eye.”

--_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.

As a Little Child. 188 L.J.

”Once said a Man--and wise was He-- Never shalt thou the heavens see, Save as a little child thou be.”

--_Sidney Lanier, The Symphony._

As Ye Sow, so shall Ye Reap. 423 S.A.

”Look before you ere you leap; For as you sow y' are like to reap.”

--_Butler, Hudibras_.

Babel. 32 T.J.

”In vain a fresher mould we seek, Can all the varied phrases tell What Babel's wandering children speak, How thrushes sing or lilacs smell?”

--_Holmes, To My Readers_.

Barabbas. 276 L.J.

”Thou hand'st sweet Socrates his hemlock sour; Thou sav'st Barabbas in that hideous hour, And stabb'st the good.”

--_Sidney Lanier, Remonstrance_.

The Best till the Last. 78 L.J.

”Perhaps like him of Cana in Holy Writ Our Arthur kept his best until the last.”

--_Tennyson, The Holy Grail_.

Betrayed with a Kiss. 267 L.J.

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