"Yet Thy poor endure, And are with us yet." --_Swinburne, Christmas Antiphones_.
"There is a loud call for courageous idealists and brave fighters to stand forth and summon other men to go forward and possess the land of a better social order. The giants of greed and the walls of difficulty cannot be allowed to shut us out nor to frighten us away." --_Charles Reynolds Brown_.
"Enough to throw one's thoughts in heaps Of doubt and horror,--what to say Or think,--this awful secret sway, The potter's power over the clay! Of the same lump (it has been said). For honour and dishonour made, Two sister vessels." --_Rossetti, Jenny_.
"One Mary bathes the blessed feet With ointment from her eyes, With spikenard one, and both are sweet, For both are sacrifice." --_Lowell, Godminster Chimes_.
"No trumpet-blast profaned The hour in which the Prince of Peace was born; No bloody streamlet stained Earth's silver rivers on that sacred morn." --_Bryant, Christmas in 1875_.
"Thou also hast had the world's buffets and scorns, And to thy life were not denied The wounds in the hands and feet and side." --_Lowell, The Vision of Sir Launfal_.
"What prodigal portion have I spent that I should stand to such penury?" --_Shakespeare, As You Like It 1:1_.
"Ready to meet the wanderer ere he reach The door he seeks, forgetful of his sin, Longing to clasp him in a father's arms, And seal his pardon with a pitying tear." --_Holmes, Wind-Clouds and Star-Drifts_.
"With foretaste of the Land of Promise." --_Browning, The Ring and the Book_.
"O, how wretched Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors." --_Shakespeare, Henry VIII 3:2_.
Render unto Caesar the Things That are Caesar's. 240 L.J.
"A kindly rendering Of 'Render unto Caesar.'" --_Tennyson, Harold, Act III, Scene 2_.
"Let us be diverted by none of those sophistical contrivances, . . . reversing the divine rule, and calling, not the sinners, but the righteous to repentance." --_Lincoln_.
"With a piece of Scripture Tell them that God bids do good for evil." --_Shakespeare, Richard III 1:3_.
The Scarlet Thread in the Window 282 H.T.
"No Rahab thread, For blushing token of the spy's success." --_Browning, The Red Cotton Night-cap Country_.
"We are our own devils; we drive ourselves out of our Edens." --_Goethe_.