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Come, read to me some poem,
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That shall soothe this restless spirit,
And banish the thoughts of day.

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" History and Civil, Gov-
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"Marriage and Divorce,
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"History
oe Tennessee,"
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Citizens' Manual," Immi-
gration,
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"Our Girls," Etc., Etc,
"Imitate the best, not the ivorst."
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Come, read to me some poem,
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Some simple and he rt-felt lav,
I hat shall soothe this restless spirit,
And banish the thoughts of day.

Longfellow.
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The Village Blacksmith -
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In School D^iys - -
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The Eternal Goodness
The Reaper and the Flowers -
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For You
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Women
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Objects of Life - -
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Learn to Do Well - -
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Speak Gently
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Barefoot Boy - -
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Be Kind to Mother - -
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"TheySay"
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The Jolly Old Pedagogue - -
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The Dt ad Confederacy -
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Death
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The Old School Exhibit on
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Have You Been to the
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Home
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Memory
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1. A Sunday well spent brings a week of content.
2. Trust when you can, but know
y<
ur man.
8. How do you fool the world? By telling th;
truth.
4. Too much pudding will vomit a dog. Why ?
5. Trust to Providence but lcck the store door.
(J. A blin 1 man gets little good from a lantern.
7. When Saian goes to prayer mischief is in the
air.
8. No legacy is so rich as intelligence and honesty.
9. Ready money has the piok of the market.
10. What the puppy learns the dog will do.
11. Pers verance accomplishes more than precipi-
t tion.
12. To doubt is to think, and to think is to improve,
lo. A th ng of beauty is a joy forever.
14. Lawyers and woodpeckers have long bills. V^
15. Evil society is the absolute death of piety.
lb'. Fancy is a pretty dog but needs a great deal of
i'eeding.
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17. Employment brings enjoyment. Folly is wise
in her own eyes.
18. Better ask the way than to go a t
ay.
19. Joy and sorrow make to-day and t -morrow.
20. Dun't wade where you can no! see the bottom.
21. A bitten child is afraid of a stuffed log.
22. Dare to do right, and wale in the light.
23. Pride and scorn are briar and thorn.
24. It needs much skill to wield th<> qu 11.
25. Bad books bewitch
;
good books enrich.
26. He who works best must sometimes rest.
27. He who is rusty is sure to b.- crusty, must;
.
28. Where argument fails,
g
Id rea
lily avails.
29. Intentions which die are pretensions which lie.
30. It is the silly lasses who linger 1 nj; at looking-
pla^ses
1. O, what a tan Ae 1 web we weave
When first we practice
to deceivt.

Warmion.
2. Come one, come all! this rock shall fly
From its firm base as soon as I.

Scott.
3. All actual heroes are essential men,
And all men possible heroes

Leijh.
4. Honor and shame from no condition rise,
Act well your part, there all the honor 1 es.
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5. A little learning is a dangerous thing
;
Drink deep or taste not the Pierian spring.

Pope.
6. Auu, o te. timed, excusing of a
fault
Doth make the fault the worse by the
excu e.

Shakespea : e.
7. Unblemished, let me live or die unknown,
O, grant an hone t fane, or grant me none

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8. Fare thee wci
1
,
an
' ii forever,
Strll forever, fare thee well.

Byron.
9. There is nothing great in earth but man
And nothing great in man but mind.

Anon,
10. Love rules the court, the camp, the .grove,
And men below and saints above;
For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
1. Mourn not for vanished ages,
With their great, heroic men,
Who dwell in history's pages,
And live in the poet's pen
;
For the grandest times are before us,
And the world is yet to see
The noblest worth of this old earth
In the men that are to be.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

Rare Gems.
One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral, evil, and of good,
Than all the sages can.
3. Sounds which address the ear are lost and dio
In one short hour; rut 1ha
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wHch etrihes
the eye
Lives long upon the mind, the faithful sight
Engraves the knowledge with a beam of light.
4. Thought is desp^r than all speech
Feeling deepei than all thought
;
Souls to souls can never teach
What unto themselves was taught.

Cranch.
A bounteous feast has he who eats his bread
In sweet
content and happy frame of mind;
But he who brings care to the banquet's spread
In spite of plenty has but
poorly dined.
O father!
grant thy love div ne
To make
the
mystic temples thine !
When
wasting age and
wearying strife
Have
sapped
the leaning Avails of l.fe,
When
dar snes^
gathers over all.
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And tlia last tott3ring pillars fVl,
Take the poor dust Thy mercy w.rros,
And mould it into heavenly forms.

0. W.
Holmes.
Oar's the right to co nfort in distress
;
The right to soothe, the r.ght t> ble s,
The right to
feed and clothe the poor,
The right,to teach them to endure
;
The right a happy home to mate
In any clime, for Jesus sake;
Ri 'hts such as these are all we crave
Until our lasta peaceful grave.

Gipsy.
8. The day is ('one and the darkness
Falls from the wings of ni^ht,
As a feather is wafted downward
From an eagle in his flight
And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares that infest the day
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
And as silently steal away.

Longfellow.
9. But, he is gone, the free, the bold,
The champion of his country's right
;
His burning eye is dim and cold,
And mute his voice of conscious might
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Oh no! not mute
;
his stirring call
Can s-ar:le tyrants on their thrones.
And on the hearts of nations fall
More awl'ul than his living tones.

Prentice.
30. Loveliest of all lovely th'ngs are they,
On earth that soon pass away.
The rose that hvcs its little hour
Is prized beyond the sculptured flower,

Bryant.
11. Workman of God ! lose not heart,
But learn what God is like;
And in tie darkest battle-field,
Thou shalt know where to strike.
j2. For r'ght is right, s nee God is God,
And right the day must win;
To doubt would be disloyalty,
To falter would be sin

Anon.
13. Whene'er a noble deed is wrought,
Whene'er is spoken a no le thought
Our hearts in glad surprise
To higher levels rise.

Longfellow.
>4. Thou, too, sail on, ship of State!
Sail on, O Union strong and great I
Humanity with all its fears,
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With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate.

Longfelloic.
15 Such beautiful, beautiful hands !
Though hearts were weary and sad,
These patient hands kept toiling on
That child. en might be glad.
I almost weep as I look ba k
To chil ihood's distant day,
I think how her hands r< sted not,
When mine were at their play.
1(5 But eh ! b yond the shadow-land,
Where all is bright and fair,
I know full well those dear old haiK.s
The palm of victory wear--
Where crystal streams through endhss time,
Flow over golden sands
;
And where the old grow young again
I'll clasp my mother's hands.

B. G. Carter
17. Hop"*, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns, and cheers the way;
And stili as darker grows the light
Emits a brighter ray.

Goldsmith.
18. I sometimes hold it half a sin
To put in words the grief I feel;
For words, like Nature, half reveal
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And half conceal the self within

Tennyson.
! 9. And the st ttely ships go on
To their haven under the hill;
But for the touch of a vanished hand,
And the sound of a voice that is still
!

Tennyson.
20. Courage Lr -tlicr ! do not stumble,
Though thy path is dark as night
;
There's a stir to guide the humble,
Trust in God and do the right.

Madeod.
i2.
21. No matter what you try to do
At home or at your school,
Always do your wry best
There is no butter rule.

Anon.
If Wisdom's ways you wisely seek,
Five .things observe with care :
To whom you spe ik, of whom you speak
And how and when and where.

Anon.
23. Look for goodness, look for gladne s,
You will meet them all the while
If you bring a smiling visage
To the gl -ss you meet a smile.

Alice
Gary.
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If fortune with a smiling face,
Strevs roses on
the vzy
Wl en hould \ye stop to pick them up ?
To-d
iy, my friend, to-day.
But should she frown with face of: care,
And talk of coming sorrow,
When thall we grieve, if grieve me must?
To-morrow,
friend, to-morrow.

Anon.
25. Beautiful eyes are those that show,
L ke crystal janes where hearth-fires glow,
Beautiful thoughts that burn below.
Beautiful hands are those that do
Work that is earnest, brave, and true,
Moments by moments, the long day through.

Allen.
26. Suppose your task, my
little
man,
Is very
hard to get;
Will it make it any easier
For you to sit and fret?
And wouldn't
it be
wiser,
Than waiting
like a dunce,
To go to work in earnest
And learn the thing at once
?
Phoebe Cary.
'11.
Half of our
Kuman ills
Have a color rosy
;
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Winter brings the chills

But its fires are cozy !

Let the winds of winter blow
!
There are daisies 'neath the snow.
28. Will ever the edict be uttered, O man,
"Thus far and no farther'
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reach if y^pu can?
Nay, the broad r the grasp of the intellect fine
The farther recede s
the horizon's line.

Humboldt
29. Beware ! such words may once be said,
Where shame and fear unite
;
But, spoken twice, they mark instead,
A sin against the light.C. Newman.
30. There's a crown for little children,
Above the bright blue eky,
And all who look for Jesus
Shall wear it by
and by;
31. A crown of brightest glory,
Which he Will then bestow
On all who've found his favor,
And love his name below.

Anon.
32, Two souls with but a single thought,
Two hearts that beat as one.
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33. Truth, crushed to earth shall rise again,
The eternal years of Go I are hers;
But error, wounded, writhes in pun,
Ani dies amonj its wors ;ipjrs.

BrymU
34. He who checks his child with terror,
Stops its play, and stills its song,
Not alone commits an error,
But a grievous moral wrong.
35. Give it play and never fear it;
. Active life is no defect
;
Never, never break its spirit,
Curb it only to direct.
36. Would you stop the flowing river,
Thinking it would cease to flow?
Onward must ii flow forever
;
Better teach it where to go.

Anon.
37 Heights by great men reached and kept,
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night.

Longfellow,
38. Teach me to feel another's woe,
To hide the fault I
see*:
That mercy I to others show,
That mercy show to me.

Pope.
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THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.
1. Under a
spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands
;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large a id s newy hands
;
And the muscles of his brawy aim?
Are strong as ire n bands.
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2. Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begun,
Each evening sees it close
;
Something attempted, something dene,
Has earned a night's repose.
3.
Thanhs, thanks, to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught:
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought.

Longfellow.
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IN WV
CEIfE^JFITHi 0BSEI^Y7^,
By George D, Free.
1. Is our sun in his matchless splendor,
Revolving on in his glorious might
With the worlds which he is keeping,
And amid all their dazzling light?
2 Has this Solar System been moving
^
In a c"rcle incomprehensibly vast,
And has made but a little curve in the distance,
In a quadrillion of years in the past?
3. When mankind was created,
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Away back in that distant day;
Where it was in the starry regions,
Do you say it's billions of miles away?"
4 Are there any other such solar systems,
Which with our's have been keeping pace;
Encircling a much larger system,
That, too, whirling in immensity's space?
5. Are there millions of those luminons systems,
Directing others in their rapid sway,
With brilliant suns and lights resplendent
Are they stars of the bright Milky Way ?
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6. Explain the cause of this protraction
With that bright land of the ether sea.
There must be a grand central attraction
Who can tell what that center may be ?
7. if everything is rapidly whirling,
In a circle through the great unknown;
Then, it is possible, that we are revolving,
Around the beautiful, great, white throne,
8. Where the King in His unselfish glory,
Views the whole of His labor sublime,
A
ad not a star loses its bright story,
Not even for a moment of time.
9. The million of systems whirlinga diadem,
Round each other in unbounded space;
While the great Architect who planned them,
Has kept every one still in its place.
10. The heavens His glory have thundered,
The firmament His power proclaims;
The bright starry host He has numbered,
And, "He calleth them all by their names.''
11. Can it be when life is done,
home,
And we are transformed in the new Eden
We shall see those worlds as God views them,
And know all in the ages to come ?
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THE
RAINY
DAY.
1
The
day is
col
1, and
dark,
and
dreary

It rains,
and
the
wind
is
never
weary-
T,e
vine
still
clings
to
the
mouldering
wall
but
at every
gust
the
dead
leaves
fall,"
And
the
day
is
dirk
and
dreary.
2. My
life
is
c ,M,
and
chirk,
and
dreary
it
rains
Ad
!he
wind
is
never
weary
My
th.rahti.ti
1
cling
to the
moul
lering
Pas^
But the
hopes
of
youth
fall
thick
in
the
blast
And
the
days
are
dark
and
dreary.
3. Ee
still ,
ad
heart
! and
cease
repining-
Behind
the
clouds
is
the
sun
still
shin'i, g-
H'J
fate
is the
common
fate
of all;
Into
each
life
some
rain
must
fall,'
Some
days
must
be
dark
and
dreary.

Longfellow.
A
SMALL
SWEET
WAY.
1. There's
never
a rose
in
all
the
world
Bat
makes-some
green
spray
sw
e'er

There's
never
a wind
in
all
the
?ky
But
makes
some
b.rd
wing
fleeter.
2.
There's
never a
star
but
brings
to
heaven
bo ne
silver
radiance
tender;
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And never a rosy cloud but helps
To crown the sunset splendor.
3. No robin but may thrill some heart.
His dawnlight gladnees voicing
;
God gives us all some small sweet way
To set the world rejoicing.

Anon.
A DIME,
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1. Much has been said by poets wise
About the sorrowing heart,
When friends are called with other friends
To sadly, sidly pait!
2. Tis sad to part with those we love,
Even for a brief, short time
;
But sadder still the
p
rting with
A boy and his last dime.
How dreary would the meadow be
In the pleasant summer light,
Suppose there wasn't a bird to sing,
And suppose the grass was white.

Alice Cani
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A
FSALM
OF
LIFE.
1. Tell
me not in
mournful
numbers,
Life is an empty
dream !
For
the soul is dead that
slumbers,
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And
things
are
not what they seem.
2. Life
is r. al
! Life is earnest!
And
the
grave is not
its goal
;
Dust
th)u art, to dust
retumest,
Was not
spoken of the soul.
3
Not
enjoyment,
not
sorrow,
Is our
destined
end or way;
But to act
that
each
to-morrow
Finds
us farther
than
to-day.
4.
Ari is long,
and time
is fleeting,
And our
hearts,
though
stoat and brave,
Still, like
muffl.d
drums,
are
beating
-Funeral
marches
to the
grave.
5. In
the
world's broad
field of ] ..tie,
J
z
the
bivouac
of Life,
Bejiot
like
dumb,
driven
cattle !
-Be
a hero in
the strife !
6.
Trust
ao future,
howe'er
peasant
!
Let the
dead
Past bury
its
dead
!
Act
act in
the
living
Present!
Heart
wiihin,
and
God
o'erhead
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7. Lives of great men all
remind us
We c^n rAtiis our lives sub ime,
And, departing, leave
belied us
Footprints on the s*nds of time;
8.
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked
brother,
Seeing shall take heart again.
9. Let us then be up aid doing,
With a heart for any fate
;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wtit.Longfellow.
IN SCHOOL DAYS.
1. He saw
her lift her eyes
;
he felt
The soft hand's light caressing,
And
heard the tremble of her vo.ce,
As if a fault confessing.
2. 'Tin sorry that I spelt the word

I hate to go above yon,

Because," the brown eyes lower
r
ell,

'Because, you see I love you/'

3.
Still
memory to a gray-haired man
That sweet child-face is showing.
Dear
girl ! the grasses on her grave
Have
forty years been growing
!
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H> lives to learn in life's hard school,
How few who pa^s above liim
Lament their triumph and his loss,
Like her because they love him.

Whittier.
THE ETERNAL GOODNESS.
1. I long lor household voices gone,
For vanished smiles I long,
B it God has led my dear ones on,
And he can do no wrong.
2. And so beside the Silent Sea
I wait the muffled oar
;
No harm from Him can come to mo
On ocean or on shore.
3. I know not where His islands lift,
Their fronded palms in air;
I on
y
know I
can not drift
Beyond His love and care.Whittier.
THE REAPER AND THE FLOWERS,
1 . There is a Reaper, whose name is De ith,
And with his sickle keen,
He reaps the bearded grain at a breath
And the flowers that grow between.
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2. "Shall I have naught that is fair?" saith he;
Have naught but the bearded grain ?
Though the breath of these flowers is sweet to me
I will give them all back again."
3. He gazed at the flowers with tearful eyes,
He kissed their drooping leaves;
It was for the Lord of Paradise
Hd bound them in his sheaves.
4. "My Lord has need of these flowrets gay,"
The Reaper said, and smi'e
1
;
"Dear tokens of the earth are they,
Where he was once a child.
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They shall all bloom in fields of light,
Transplanted
by my care,
And saints, upon their garments white,
These sacie4 blossoms wear."
6 And the nio'lier gave, in tears and pain,
The flowers she most did love
;
She knew she should find them all agiiu
In the fields of light above.
7. 0, jiot in cruelty not 'n wrath,
The Keaper came that day;
Twas an angel visited the green earth,
And took the flowers away.

Longfellow.
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FOR YOU.
1
.
I have some good ajivice for you,
My merry little man.
Tis this : Where'er your lot is cast,
do the best you can !
And fin I the good in everything,
No m, tter what or where;
And don't be always looking for
The hardest thing
to bear.
2. O do not stand with idle hands,
And wait for something grand,
Whil precious moments slip away
Like grains of shin'ng sand !
But do the duty nearest you,
And do it fa thfully,
For >t<
pp'rg stones to greater things
These little deeds shall be.
3. In this big world of ours my boy,
There's work for all to do;
Just measure by the Golden Rule
That which is set for >ou ;
And try it with the square of truth.
And with the line of right;
In every act and thought of yours
O keep your honor bright.- --Companion.
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The heart that i> foonest awake to the flowers,
Is always fifot to be t ujhed by the thoriic

Moor
WOMEN.
The bravest
battle that ever was fought!
Shall I tell you where and when ?
Oa the maps of the world you will find it not,
'Twas fought by the mothers of men.
Nay, not with can o \, or battle-shot,
With sword, r noble pen;
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Nay,
not with el quent word or thought,
From mouths o'i won lerful men.
But
deep in
a wil el-ap woman's he\rt

0. men that would not yield,

But bravely, dlently bore her part

Lo ! (here is that bitile-field

!
No marshaling troop, no bivouac song,
No banner to gleam and wave;
Bat oh ! these battles they last so long

From babyhoo I
to the grave.
Yet, f.iithf-ul still as a bridge
of stars,
She fights in her walled up town

Fights on and on, in the endless wars,

Then silent, unseen

goes down.
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O ye with banners and battle-phot,
And soldiers to shout and praise
I tell you the kingliest victories fought
Are fought in these si ent ways.
Oh, spotless woman in a world of shame,
With splendid and silent scorn,
Go back to God as white as you came,
The kingiiest warrior born !

Joaquin Miller.
OBJECTS OF LIFE.
1.
I live for those who love me,
For those I know are true,
For the heaven that smiles above mo,
And awaits my spirit true too;
For all human ties that bind me,
For the task by God assigned me,
For the bright hopes left behind me,
And the good that I can do.
2. I live to learn their story
Who've suffered for my sake,
To emulate their glory,
And follow in their wake
;
Bards, patriots, martyrs, sages,
The noble of all ages,
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Whose deeds crowd history's pages,
And Time's great volume make.
3. I live to hail that season
By gifted minds foretold,
When man shall live by reason
And not alone by gold
;
When mf; to man united,
And every wrong thing righted,
The whole world shall be lighted
As Eden was of old.
I live to hold communion
With all that is divine,
To feel there is a union
'Twixt nature's heart and mine;
To profit by affliction,
Reap truths from fields of fiction,
Grow wiser from conviction
And fulfill each grand design.
5. I live for those who love me
For those who know me true,
^
For the heaven that smiles above mo
And awaits my spirit to> :
For the wrong that n33ds resistance,
For the ciuse that tacks assistance,
For the future ia ths ibtaaco,
An
J the goo J thai; 1 cj*a .b.
Rare Gems.
9
LEARN
TO DO WELL.
1. My
mother,
one day v hen 1 v
a* a child,
And was given
a tusk to do,

A tis-k
that I felt like
slighting so great
Was my haste to
s e my way
through,

Examined
my
work ti
en
g
ve me a look
That
brought the w; rm blood to my free,
"My
ehifcl she said,
'You
mmtkarn to dowel
,
V\
ith no slighting in any case."
2 Reuiembsr
that work
which is partly
done
Will
have
to be done ava
:
n,
So
your saving
is naught
when
you do
so my
child,
11 o i
h it may seem a saving
then."
My
moth,
r's words
were
not hai-tfh nor
cross
Her
manner
w s gentle and kind,
But
whe: ever I Ice;
lii*e
sli.htin
a task,
'those
w r s come
back
to my mind.
My
li
eha<
been bcit-r for
them, I know.
And
my
mot ier, though
sleepi
g
now,
Still
casts
o'er my life
an
influence
b,i dit
r or i ma ie a so emn vow
To try
to
mike
my life just what
1 Know
she
would have it be,
.
To ham
to
do what 1
h ive to do
w
11,
That no
failur
s 1 may see.
Katie
Didd.
:
^0
Rare Gems.
SPEAK GENTLY.
1. Speak gent yit is bett.T far
To rule
by love than iear
;
Speak gentlylet 10 harsh words mar
The good we m'ght do here.
2.
S]) ak gently- -love do-h wMs: e low
The \ows that true hearts b"nd,
And gently friendship's ac eit: fbw,
/ faction's voice is kind.
3.
Sp ak g(ntly to the little <h hi,
Its love
be sure to ?ain;
Teac'i it in ac ents soft and m'ld,
It may not long remain.
4. Speak gently to the aged one,
G i ve not the care worn h< art,
The san 's of life are n arly run

Let such in peace depart.

5. Sp^ak gently to the erringknow
They may hive toiled in vain
;
Perhaps unkindness made them so
;
Oh ! win them back ag tin.
G. Speak gently to the young, for they
Will have enough to bear,
Pass through this life as best they may,
'Tis full of anxious care.
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7. Speak gently, k"r.d!y to
tf e po r,
Let no liar-h rone be he rJ;
They have enough they \uvM endure
Without an unkind word,
8. Speak ge.itly11^ who iravs Ris life
To bend mans st lbborn will.
When elements were in fierce strife
Said to then,
K
Peacj, be still !
?
9. Sp?ak gently

'tis a little thing

Dropped in the heart's deep well,
The
good the joy which it may bring
Eternity shall tell.

David Bales.
THE BABEFOOT BOY,
Blessings on thee, little man,
Bare'oot boy, with cheek of tan !
With thy turned-up pantaloons,
And the merry whs led tunes;
With thy red lip, redder s ill
Kissed by strawberries < n the hill.
With the sunshine on thy face,
through thy torn brim's jaunty grace;
From my heart I give thee joy,

I was OLce a barefoot boy !

Prince thou artthe grown up man,
Only is republican.
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Let the
mi'lion-rlollarel rile!
Barefoot lrud;i*ig at his si e,
hou hast more than he can buy
Li the rca-h of ear and eye,

Outward sun-hine, inward joy

;
Blessings on th e, 'barefoot boy
!
0,
for boyhood's painless
\
lay,
Sleep that wakes in laughing oay,
Health that mocks the d dor's rules,
Knowl dge never learned of schools.
Of the wild-bees morning c'as%
Of the wild-flowers time and place,
Flight of fowl and habitude
Of the tenants of the wood
;
How the to.toi.se bears his shell.
How the woodchuck digs his c.ll.
And the ground-mole sinks his well;
How the r bin feeds her young,
How the oriole's nest is hung,
Where the whitest lilies blow,
Where the freshe. t berries grow.
Where t' e groundnut trails its vine,
Where the woodgrape's clusters shine,
Of the black wasp3 cunning way,
Mason of h's walls of clay.
And the architectural plans,
Of gray hornet artisans
!

Rare Gems. 33
For eschewing
books and tasks,
Nature answers all he asks;
Face to face with her he talks,
Hand in hand with her he walks,
Part and parcel of her joy,

Blessings on thee, barefoot boy !

John Greenleaf Whittier.
BE KIND TO MOTHER.
1. Be kind to your mother, always,
It may not be long she will stay
;
Think of the empty home and heart,
When mother goes away;
So always be kind and pleasant,
And then you may never know
What it is to live without her,
Blaming yourself that 'tis so.
2. You are growing away from your mother,
You say she's old fasioned and plain,
I hope she has not loved you
So many
years, in vain.
What would you do without mother?
Then care for her while you may :
You can not know how you hurt her
By the thoughtless things you say.
34
Bare Gems.
*
3. She is working and
slaving ever,
Toiling for you and yours.
Do not be selfish and
blinded,
And be idle all these hours :
Save her every
step you can,
Work with her all the day.
When you see the happy
light in her eyes
You will be glad that you may.
4. Yet her heart to you is fa'thful,
A mother's love
ne'er iies,
Though
selfish
and ungrateful,
-
You are noble in her eyes.
A
man may seem
hard and wicked,
To the world who knows
him best,
But
his mother's
faith goes with him,
She loves
him to
the last.
5.
You know you love
your mother,
You are angry
if one says
nay,
But
with
your words you wound her,
So many
times each eay
;
But
be gentle with the mother
It may not be long she will stay

Think of the empty

borne and heart,
When the
mother goes away.
Rare Gems. 35
>
HOME.
1. Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam,
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home,
A charm from the skies seems to hallow us there,
Which seek through the world is ne'er met
with elsewhere.
2. To thee I'll return, overburdened with care
;
The heart's dearest solace will smile on me there.
No more from that cottage again will I roam
;
Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home.

Payne.
3.
Home's not merely roof and room,
Home needs something to endear it
;
Home is where the heart can bloom,
Where there is some kind heart to cheer it.
What is home with none to meet,
None to welcome, none to geet us?
Home is sweet, and only sweet,
Where there's one we love
to meet us,
4. Sweet is the hour that brings us home,
Where all will spring to meet us,
Whose hands are striving as we come
To be the first to greet us.
5. A man can build a mansion
And furnish it throughout
;
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Rare Gems*
A man can build a palace,
With lofty walls and stout;
A man can build a temple,
With high and spacious dome
;
But no man in the world can build
That precious thing called home.
6. It is the happy faculty
Of women far and wide,
. To turn a cot or palace
Into something else beside

Where brothers, sons and husbands, tir d,

With willing footsteps come;
A place of rest, where love abounds,
A perfect kingdomHome.
"THEY SAY."
1. The subject of my speech is one
We hrar of every day

'Tis simply ad about

the fear
We have of what "they say."
2. How happy all of u* could be,
Ifas we go our way

We did not stop to think and care

So much ,'or what
u
they say."
3. We never dress to go outside,
To
church, to ball, or play,
Bar-,
Gems.
But
everything
we wear or do
Is
ruled
by
what
'they say."
4
Half
o
r
the
struggles
we
each make
To
keep
up
a d splay,
M
ght be
avoided,
were it not
For
dread
of
what
u
they say."
5
Tie
half
of
those
who
leave their
homes
For
Long
Branch
and
Cape May
Would
never
go, if it were
not
For
fear of
what
"they say."
8. One
reason
why
I'm
now so scared
(Pardon
the
weakness,
pray
!)
Is that
I'm
thinking
all the
while,
"Of
me
what
will 'they
say'V
7. But
so
'twill
be, I judge,
as long
As on
he
earth
folks
stay
There'll
always
be,
with
wise and
fools/
That
dread
of
what
"they
say."
THS
AGENCY-
BUSINESS.
At
the
early
break
of a
Summer's
dawn,
When
liamotids
of
dew
bespangled
the
lawn
And
the
birds
were
chirruping
o'er hill
and dell
;
An agent
set out
with
books to
sell,
38 Rare Gems.
2. He thought of the wife in a far off land,
Where the toilers were many, where hand to
hand,
He had struggled for years for home and bread
He thought of Irs children, his manly heart
bled.
3. Away from the starving that round him had
crowded
Far from the anxiety that ever had shrouded,
He sought out his buye/s where e'er he mi
r]
t
pass:
With truth-teliiag speech : with steady canvass.
4. There were homes in this land, not filled with
books,
The children were ignorant, in acts and looks.
There were new things arising that nil
should
know;
But there was no agent around to tell them so.
5 And so as he walked on from one to another,
Some gruffly re] elled, some kind as a brother,
He gathered the knowledge that experience
can
;
That succeeding in business is knowing
your
man.
f>.
And
all the while the house on the
hill
Hare Gems.
39
In a far off land, by imdominitable will,
Was rising before him
; a paid-up home
;
A haven of rest when he need not roam.
7. The days went by and the books were sold,
The farmers were uiser, the agent had gold,
And he had something better than when he be-
gan,
He knew how to talk and he knew his man.
8. We follow the agent in years that have come,
Since he first went out on the rord to drum.
We find him reliant, to failure unknown :
The mind and the body and the purse have
grown.
9. And the house on the hill, a palace indeed,
The sales ol hi bo >ks had purchased the deed.
And the book agent's mind had mastered his
trade
;
With every little difficulty in the long up grade.
10. And a reward comes to all who step boldly out,
And work for the summit in spite of the doubt,
The timid regret daily what might have been
But the agent regrets nothing, he's one of the
MEN.

Josi ah Gross.
40
Rare
Gems.
THE
JOLLY OLD
PEDAGOGUE.
1.
'Twas a jolly old
pedagogue,
long
ago,
Tall and
slender,
and sallow and dry.
His form
was bent, and gait was
slow,
His
long,
th'n hair
was as
white as snow;
But a wonderful
twinkle
shone in his eye;
And he sang
every
night,
as he went to bed,
"Let
us be happy
down
here below
;
The living
should live,
though
the
dead
be
dead,"
Said
the jolly old
pedagogue,
long
ago.
2.
He
taught his
scholars
the rule of three,
Writing,
and
reading,
and
history,
too
;
He
took the
little
ones upon his knee,
For
a kind
old heart in his
breast had he,
And the
wants of the littlest
child he knew,
< k
Learn
while
you're
young,"
he often
said
;
"There's
much
to enjoy,
down
here below;
Life
for
the living,
and
rest for the dead
!
Said
the jolly old
pedagogue,
long ago.
3. With
the
stupidest
boys he was kind and
cool,
Speaking
only in
gentlest
tones;
The rod
was hardly
known
in his
school:
Whipping,
to him
was a barbarous
rule,
And
too hard
work for his poor
oM bones;
Besides,
it
was painful
be sometimes
said.
Rare Gems. 41
"We should make life pleasant, dovn hen
below
:
Thj living need charity more than the dead,"
Said the jolly, old pedagogue, long ago.
L lie lived in the house by the hawthorn lai.c,
With roses and woodbine ov.r the door.
His rooms were quiet and neat and plain
;
Bat a spirit of comfort there held reign,
And made him forget he was old and
p
r.
"1
need sj little," he often said
;
"And my friends and relatives here below
Won't litigate over me when I am dead,"
Said the jolly old pedagogue, long ago.
5. II smoked his pipe in the balmy air,
Every nijht, when the sun went down,
While the so t Wind played in his silvery hair,
L aving his tenderest kisses there,
Oj the jo ly old pedagogue's jolly old crown
And feeling the kisses, he smiled and said,

4i
Tis a glorious world, down here below :
Why wait for happiness till we are dead?"
Sai 1 the jolly old pedago ue, long ago.
II ? sat at his door one midsummer night,
After the sun had sunk in the west
:
And t ie lingering beams of golden light
Made his kindly old face look wajm and bright.
42 Rare Gems.
While the odorous night- wind whimpered,
"Rest!"
Gently, gently, he bowed his head.
Tnere were angels waiting for him, I know :
He was sure of happne^s, living or d ad,
This jolly old pedagogue, long a ;o !

George Arnold.
THE DEAD CONFEDERACY.
P;ile, stark and cold- she lies in utt r silence,
No more to rise up from that deathly swoon
To woeping states that whisp3r in great anguish,
6k
Dead, dead saloon."
Ah ! mourn for her with tender love and pity,
Ye men that strove to lengthen out her years,
A little child, grown old and gray with sorrow.
Demands your tears.
A little child with blood upon her ringlets,
A faded banner wrapping her tired arm?,
Bruised fret that faltered in the sweet reveal-
ing
Of freedom's charms.
Hushed
into mute and reverent emotion,
The
|e pie pass beneath the
heavy skies,
Rare Gems. 43
Knowing not to-day, nor yet upon the morrow,
Will she rise.
5. Arise t > spread her banner in rejoicing,
To beckon honor from the w itng years,
Who hints of faults, with every stain
upon lur
Wash^l out in tears?
G. The faulty idol of a faulty people,
Who loved her better that her faults were
theirs,
Who see her deaf, blind, dead to all perfection
The future bears.
7. As dead as the se who sought to be her armour,
Who held their hearts as shields 'twixt her
and death,
And died to cherish into fuller being
The infant breath.
8. Strong hearts that i j the rus'i and roar of battle,
P>ure 1 out tluir noble blood like holy wine,
\\ as.ing its wealth and richness on a broken
And blasted shrine.
9. A bl :sted shrine, yet even in its blighting
Crowned with the 1 omage of a million hearts,
Y* hose burning tears poured out the last liba-
tion
That
love imparts,
44 Bare Gems.
10. A faded hope, yet fairer in ils fading
Than victory's temples reared above the dead,
And sweeterblasted, faded, brokenthan
rich incei-S)
For conquests shed.
11. Pale, pale she lies
;
the autumn corneth gently
And clasps its crimson fingers 'round her
feet,
And throws a golden spell upon the forest,
As is moet meet.
12. It is most meet that one who died in childhood,
Who sm ljd up n us fr< m the purple
west,
Should take, amid the crim 01 and the golden,
Her final rest.
13. She lieth cold; the spirit of the winter
Hushes the careless river at her side,
'Tis well, we think, that thus should sleep in
silence
A people's prde.
14. She lieth still; we dare not sing
her rcqu
:
em,
The wes'ern star has "a led out of sight,
Like her who was the idol of our worship,
Leaving us night.

F. Borland.
Ilare
Gems.
45
DEATH.
"There
is no death!
What
seems
so
is
trans-
ition-:
Th's
life of
mortal
breath
Is
but
a suburb
of the li'e
elysian,
Whose
p
>rlal
we call
death."
Longfellow*
2. "Bright
tilings
never
d.'e,
Even
though
they
fade
;
Beauty
and
minstrelsy
Deathless
were
made."
"There
is
no
death
in this
wide
world,
But
one
eternal
scene of
change;
The
flag
of life is
never
f'uried,
It
only
taketh
wider
ran^e."
THE
OLD
SCHOOL
INHIBITIONS.
0\
the
old
school
exhibitions,
will
they
ever
come
again,
With
the
good,
old
fashion'
d speaking
from
the girls
and
boys
so
plain?
Will
we
ever
hear
old
'
lser"
with its
rapid
roll and
sweep,
And
-Pilot
'tis a
fearful
night
; there's
danger
on
the
deep?"
46 Rare Gems.
Sweet Mary doesn't raise her Iambs like Mary did of
old;
Their fleece is not "as white as snow"they're wan-
dering from the fold
;
The boy upon "the burning deck" is not one half i s
fine;
He was not "born at Bingen, at Bin?;en on the
Rhine."
The girls don't speak in calico, the boys in cotton
jeans
;
They've ch nged the old-time dresses 'long with the
old-time scenes
;
They smile and speak in ancient Greek; in bro.id-
cloth.and in lace;
And you can't halt' see the speaker for the collar
'round the face
!
Oh,
the old school exhibition ! It is gone forever
more
;
The old scho >l-house is deserted and the grass has
choked the door,
And the wind sweeps 'round the gables with a low
and mournlul whine.
For the old boys "born at B ngen, at Bingen on the
Rhine
!"
R:re Gems. 47
THE OLD HOME.
1. Can tli e flower forget the sun
That warms it day by day?
Or the mariner the star
That guides him on his way?
2 Can Memory's precious urn
Part with its cherished store?
Or Love's flame cease to bum
When shadows stretch before?
3. Though the sun is fallen low,
And life's journey soon will cense,
Bii 1 1 hear home's -streamlet flow
And see that bower of peace.
Fairer than palm-tress with graceful plumes
Is the far away home with its sunny rooms
;
The swallows that under the brown eaves nest
Than the brds that flicker with jewelled breast.
With the same light foot, and childish glee
I'd chase the butterfly over the lea;
Thm unde the shadow of mossy steep,
Where meadow ferns wave I'd fall asleep!
Griffith.
48 Hare Gems.
. TRUTH.
Truth 's the end we are seeking
;
Work is the means we employ
;
Duty's ihe path that leads onward
To fathomless depths of joy.

B. A. Phigree.
HAVE YCU BEEN TO THE WORLD'S FAIR?
1. Have you been to. Chicago to see the World's
Fair ?
Is a qucs ion heard every day.
Has the Ferris Wheel li ted \ ou high in ihe air
Or have }ou btrolled down the Midway?
2. Have you seen the Turkish Nautch dancing,
Ridden a camel in a street in Cairo ?
Have you seen the lions and tigers prancing
In Ikckenback's wonderful animal sLow?
3. IL.ve you paced the aisles of the Liberal
Arts?
And gazed on all the wonders there
That came over the sea from foreign marts
For exhibition at this great Fair?
4. Have you visited the grounds on illumination
night
And watched the lighted fountains play,
And seen on a building high the search light
Casting its beams tLwn the Midway?
Rare
Gems
49
5. ILiveyou
s'ood in
the
mi ,
s aid
mning
And
looked
on
th ,s,
preci
nssto
.esaad
ores
>\ illiout
a feeling
of
repining
'I
ait ui]
before
you
was not \ oura?
5.
Have
you be. n in
the
transportation,
Seen the
d.ff
rei
t m.xlts
trad?
Js
n t this
a
wondrotn
creation,
And
at all
these
th ng< ,!
you
marvel?
6.
Di
1
ever
yu t i ,k as you
looked
on all
Has
cosmoH
tan
city,
with its
beauties
re-
vealed.
With
its
spires
and
towers
and
buildinga
tall,
How
like
a
prisoner
condemned
its
fate
was
sealed?
7.
How
the
years
of
thought,
planing
and
design-
>ng,
And
the
work
of
months
would
fade
Ll
f
e
a
y
of
sun in a dark
place
shining
Into
dark
and
dismal
shade.

Tommy
Trimmers.
HOME.
I Though
we may
not
change
the
cotfcge
For
a
mansion
tall
and
grand,
Or
exchange
the
little
grass
spot
For a
boundless
stretch
of land
;
Rare Gems.
Yet there's something brighter, dearer,
Than the wealth we thus command.
Though we have no means to purchase
Costly pictures rich and rare
;
Though we have no silken hanging
For the walls so cold and bare,
We can hang them o'er with garl inds,
For do .vers blossom everywhere.
We c :,n make home v^Ty cheerful
It' t!>e ri
o
lri course je begin
;
We can make its in mites happy
And iheir tru st blexings win
;
It' we ma've a small room brighter
It will let the sunshine in.
We can gather 'round the fireside
When the evening hourc are long;
We can blend the heartj and voices
In a happy social song
;
We can help an erring brother,
Lead him from the p^th of wrong.

Anon.
The heart has many passages
Through which the feelings roam,
But its middle niAe is sacred
To the old, old home.

Anon.
Rare Gems.
51
Foil ten ( ss is to do and say
The kindest tl ing in the kindest way.
Before you epeuk an angry word, count ten;
Then, if still you angry be, c< unt againe
Do your best, ycur very best,
And do it every day,
Little boys and little girls,
That is the wisest way.
Hearts, like doors, can ope with
ease,
To very, very little kejs,
And don't forget that they are these,
4
T thark you, sir/' and "If you please."
Kind words are little sunbeams,
That sparkle as they fall,
And loving smiles are sunbeams,
A light of joy to all. .
Kind hearts are the gardens
Kind thoughts are the roots,
Kind words are the blossoms,
Kind deeds are the fruits.
Speak the truth and speak it ever,
Cost it what it will.
52 Rare Gems.
He who hides the wrong I
e
did
Does the wrong thiner still.
To do to < t^ers as I would
That they should do to me
Will make me honest, kind and good,
As children ought to be.
When mother says "Do this" or "tkat"
Don't say "what for" or "why"
But let her hear your gentle voice
S?y
"Mother dear, I'll try,"
Let us seek to scatter,
Let us seek to sow,
Little deeds of kindness
Ever^ where we go.
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