free,
And all are slaves beside.
1965
COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. v., Line 133.
Truth is one;
And, in all lands beneath the sun,
Whoso hath eyes to see may see
The tokens of its unity.
1966
WHITTIER: _Miriam._
Truth is truth howe'er it strike.
1967
ROBERT BROWNING: _La Saisiaz,_ Line 198.
I love truth: truth's no cleaner thing than love.
1968
MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. iii., Line 735.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,--that is all
Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
1969
KEATS: _Ode on a Grecian Urn._
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne.
1970
JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Present Crisis,_ St. 8.
=Tulips.=
Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays
Her idle freaks; from family diffused
To family, as flies the father-dust,
The varied colors run; and while they break
On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks,
With secret pride, the wonders of his hand.
1971
THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 539.
=Tune.=
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long!
1972
WATTS: _Hymns and Spiritual Songs,_ Bk. ii., Hymn 19.
=Turf.=
Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
1973
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: _On Joseph Rodman Drake._
=Turk.=
Should such a man, too fond to rule alone,
Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne.
1974
POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 197.
=Twilight.=
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray
Had in her sober livery all things clad.
1975
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 598.
Peacefully
The quiet stars came out, one after one;
The holy twilight fell upon the sea,
The summer day was done.
1976
CELIA THAXTER: _A Summer Day,_ St. 15
=Tyranny.=
'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss.
1977
SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act i., Sc. 2.
'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known--
Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own.
1978
HERRICK: _Aph. Kings and Tyrants._
Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that
Of blood and chains?
1979
BYRON: _Sardanapalus,_ Act i., Sc. 2.
==U.==
=Uncertainty.=
Oh, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
1980
SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.
=Unity.=
Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
1981
MARIA WHITE LOWELL: _Ingomar the Barbarian,_ Act ii.
=Unkindness.=
This was the most unkindest cut o
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