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“SHOULD AULD ACQUAINTANCE BE FORGOT.” “Show not that manner, and these features all, The serpent’s cunning, and the sinner’s fall?” Crabbe. The chill, shivery October morning came; not the October m…
MISCHANCES. “What! remain to be. Denounced—dragged, it may be, in chains.” Werner. All the next day they sate together—they three. Mr. Hale hardly ever spoke but when his children asked him question…
PEACE. “Sleep on, my love, in thy cold bed, Never to be disquieted! My last Good Night—thou wilt not wake Till I thy fate shall overtake.” Dr. King. Home seemed unnaturally quiet after all this terr…
FALSE AND TRUE. “Truth will fail thee never, never! Though thy bark be tempest-driven, Though each plank be rent and riven, Truth will bear thee on for ever!” Anon. The “bearing up better than likel…
EXPIATION. “There’s nought so finely spun But it cometh to the sun.” Mr. Thornton sate on and on. He felt that his company gave pleasure to Mr. Hale; and was touched by the half-spoken wishful entre…
UNION NOT ALWAYS STRENGTH. “The steps of the bearers, heavy and slow, The sobs of the mourners, deep and low.” Shelley. At the time arranged the previous day, they set out on their walk to see Nicho…
LOOKING SOUTH. “A spade! a rake! a hoe! A pickaxe or a bill! A hook to reap, or a scythe to mow, A flail or what ye will— And here’s a ready hand To ply the needful tool, And skill’d enough, by lesso…
PROMISES FULFILLED. “Then proudly, proudly up she rose, Tho’ the tear was in her e’e, Whate’er ye say, think what ye may, Ye’s get na word frae me!” Scotch Ballad. It was not merely that Margaret wa…
MAKING FRIENDS. “Nay, I have done; you get no more of me; And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart, That thus so clearly I myself am free.” Drayton. Margaret shut herself up in her own room, after …
OUT OF TUNE. “I have no wrong, where I can claim no right, Naught ta’en me fro, where I have nothing had, Yet of my woe I cannot so be quite; Namely, since that another may be glad With that, that th…
