e--feed what brings the fruit."

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"Courtesy may cover malice; on their _heads_ the woodmen bring,
Meaning all the while to burn them, logs and faggots--oh, my King!
And the strong and subtle river, rippling at the cedar's foot,
While it seems to lave and kiss it, undermines the hanging root."

* * * * *

"Weep not! Life the hired nurse is, holding us a little space;
Death, the mother who doth take us back into our proper place."

"Gone, with all their gauds and glories: gone, like peasants, are the
Kings,
Whereunto this earth was witness, whereof all her record rings."

"For the body, daily wasting, is not seen to waste away,
Until wasted; as in water set a jar of unbaked clay."

"And day after day man goeth near and nearer to his fate,
As step after step the victim thither where its slayers wait."

"Like as a plank of drift-wood
Tossed on the watery main,
Another plank encountered,
Meets,--touches,--parts again;
So tossed, and drifting ever,
On life's unresting sea,
Men meet, and greet, and sever,
Parting eternally."

"Halt, traveller! rest i' the shade: then up and leave it!
Stay, Soul! take fill of love; nor losing, grieve it!"

"Each beloved object born
Sets within the heart a thorn,
Bleeding, when they be uptorn."

"If thine own house, this rotting frame, doth wither,
Thinking another's lasting--goest thou thither?"

"Meeting makes a parting sure,
Life is nothing but death's door."

"As the downward-running rivers never turn and never stay,
So the days and nights stream deathward, bearing human lives away."

"Bethinking him of darkness grim, and death's unshunned pain,
A man strong-souled relaxes hold, like leather soaked in rain."

"From the day, the hour, the minute.
Each life quickens in the womb;
Thence its march, no falter in it,
Goes straight forward to the tomb."

"An 'twere not so, would sorrow cease with years?
Wisdom sees right what want of knowledge fears."

"Seek not the wild, sad heart! thy passions haunt it;
Play hermit in thy house with heart undaunted;
A governed heart, thinking no thought but good,
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