--Page 379.

Oh, not in cruelty, not in wrath,
The Reaper came that day;
'Twas an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away. --Page 411.

It matters nothing if one is born in a duck yard, if one can only be
hatched from a swan's egg. --Page 427.

(Volume II)

Did you ever hear of a bird in a cage, that promised to stay in it?
--Page 2.

The very violets in their bed
Fold up their eyelids blue. --Page 32.

Rejoice in thy youth, rejoice in thy fresh growth, and in the young life
that is within thee. --Page 70.

You are more than the Earth, though you are such a dot--
You can love and think, and the Earth cannot. --Page 67.

Thank him for his lesson's sake,
Thank God's gentle minstrel there,
Who, when storms make others quake,
Sings of days that brighter were. --Page 214.

You must expect to be beat a few times in your life, little man, if you
live such a life as a man ought to live. --Page 242.

Those that wish to be clean, clean they will be. --Page 247.

Reckon not on your chickens before they are hatched. --Page 376.

He saw the rocks of the mountain tops all crimson and purple with the
sunset; and there were bright tongues of fiery cloud burning and
quivering about them; and the river, brighter than all, fell, in a
wavering column of pure gold, from precipice to precipice, with the
double arch of a broad purple rainbow stretched across it, flushing and
fading alternately in the wreaths of spray. --Page 420.

(Volume III)

In darkness dissolves the gay frost-work of bliss. --Page 96.

Peace and order and beauty draw
Round thy symbol of light and law. --Page 349.

Lips where smiles went out and in. --Page 386.

All the little boys and girls,
With rosy cheeks and flaxen curls,
And sparkling eyes and teeth like pearls. --Page 391.

(Volume IV)

Prince thou art,--the grown up man
Only is republican. --Page 3.

O'er me, like a regal tent,
Cloudy-ribbed, the sunset bent,
Purple-curtained, fringed with gold,
Looped in man