painter, and he went down
into the tomb honored and mourned by a nation--by the world, wherever his
fame was known. His mantle fell upon Parrhasius, who is revered by Genius
as the greatest painter of antiquity.

=Ideals=. Every man has at times in his mind, the ideal of
what he should be, but is not. The ideal may be high and
complete, or it may be quite low and insufficient; yet in
all men that really seek to improve, it is better than the
actual character. Man never falls so low that he can see
nothing higher than himself.--=Theodore Parker=.
(1810-1860.)

LITTLE GEMS FROM TENNYSON.

Willow whiten, aspen quiver,
Little breezes dusk and shiver
Through the wave that runs for ever
By the island in the river
Flowing down to Camelot.
Four gray walls, and four gray towers,
Overlook a space of flowers,
And the silent isle embowers
The Lady of Shalott.

_From "The Lady of Shalott."_

How sweet it were, hearing the downward stream,
With half-shut eyes ever to seem
Falling asleep in a half-dream!
To dream and dream, like yonder amber light,
Which will not leave the myrrh-bush on the height;
To hear each other's whispered speech;
Eating the Lotos day by day,
To watch the crisping ripples on the beach,
And tender curving lines of creamy spray;
To lend our hearts and spirits wholly
To the influence of mild-minded melancholy;
To muse and brood and live again in memory,
With those old faces of our infancy
Heaped over with a mound of grass--
Two handfuls of white dust, shut in an urn of brass!

_From "The Lotos-Eaters."_

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life. Life piled on life
Were all too little.

_From "Ulysses."_

The splendor falls on castle walls
And snowy summits old in story:
The long light shakes across the lakes,
And the wild cataract leaps in glory.
Blow, bugle, blow! Set the wild echoes flying!
Blow, bugle; answer, echoes--dying, dying, dying.

_Song from "The Princess."_

Henceforth thou hast a helper, me, that know
The woman's cause is man's; they rise or sink
Together, dwarfed or godlike, bond or free:
For she that out of Lethe scales with man
The shining steps of Nature, shares with man