...are those vows, and well performed, Which at such times we undertake. IMPERFECTION OF HUMAN SYMPATHY WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone — so Heaven has willed — we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons...

...intermeddle with his joy," to he one of the most pathetic and beautiful poems in our language :— " Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven had will'd, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why...

...intermeddle with his joy ; ' and a wise poet of our own time thus beautifully expands the saying : 1 Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, Nor even the tendercst heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why...

...the wide world he only is alone Who lives not for another. Rogert, Humax LyeSOLITUDE — ctintin'tL Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why...

...That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain. From Evangeline — Part ii. TTTHY should we faint, and fear to live alone, * ' Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die ; Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reason why...

...when eager fancies throng, Pure may be our dream and song." * The Church Militant. FAITH AND LOVE. *' Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die ; Nor even the tenderest heart, »nd next our own, Knows half the reasons...

..." The heart knoweth his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy." \\f HY should we faint and fear to live alone * * Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own Knows half the reasons why...

...are eternal, with our wondering and hopes and faithful love. OUT OF THE WORLD. ; OUT OF THE WORLD. " Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone so Heaven has willed we die ? Not e'en the tenderest heart and next our own Knows half the reasons why...

...after Trinity." There is a well of comfort in this poem, and its excellence is sustained throughout. " Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die, Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why...

...life a god. The Belvidere A polio. Too fair to worship, too divine to love. iud. JOHN KEBLE. "\ X THY should we faint and fear to live alone, * Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why...