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Pickings from Punch

... aleqa 1.-Hit one of your own size, Charity. Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor see; And 'cos I never speaks to them, They never speaks to me. If ?? breeds contempt. The Train. 'Tis the voice of the sluggard, I hear him complain, You have woke me ...

THE LAST SHALL BE FIRST

... And smiling fortune points a way to fame Ahoniz some path of honour, free fromn blame, t To onle, the call to do great deeds speaks loud h To one, amlid a vast unhonoured crowd, c Fiar otherwise the comamon lot of man. e Our hourly toil but seeks the mleans ...

IF I WERE A VOICE

... voice, a persoasive voice That could travel the wide world through, 1I would fly onl the beamis of the mornlng light, Alld speak to mten with a gentle mnight, And tell them to be true. I'd liv, I'd flvy o'er land and sea, Wherever a human heart ntisht ...

DRAMA

... commcrcial schemes in which he may have personal interest, is, at all events in Mr. Florence's hands, an amusing personage ; not speak of other littlo peculiarities indicative both of defective education and of natural humour, which last night contributed in ...

MR. ROSS NEIL'S DRAMAS

... circumstances fitted to call forth strong passion they speak passionately, and many lines of eloquence and of poetical feeling will be found in these plays. The dragntis personce speak poetically, but they speak also consistently with their position; and it is ...

POETRY

... drop a tear, And homeward go The anguish of an unshared grief to -know; Darling, which one! One of us, dear- But one- Shall speak glad words the other cannot hear; And fully know All we have dimly groped for here below. Darling, which one! One of us, darling ...

NATIONAL MUSIC

... either as a scientific man or as ar antifluarin, but to speak of those of its characterihtics and bhltiie, which had enchained him and commianded his admiratioa as a lover of music. And, in speaking of it t:lu, he should not rely so much on tradition as ...

Literature

... It is not good to speak evil of all whom we know bad ; it is worse to judge evil of any who may prove good. To speak ill upon know. t ledge Shows a want of charity; to speak ill upon suR- picion shows a went of honesty. I will not speak so bad as I know ...

Poetry

... the nigbt, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept heaving to and fro. So silently we seemed to speak, So slowly moved about, As we had lent -her hall our poweru To eke her ?? OUt. Onr very hopes belied our fears, Our fears our ...

HOPE

... should we know The be% she told; For eyes, they cannot play a trsitor's part; Anna thouzh lips may The will obey, ETes only speak the promptinr s of the heart. -E. F. M? ...

THE OLD SCHOOL LIST

... are all in the old School List. There's a grave grey lawyer in King's Bench-walk, Whose clients are passing few: He seldom speaks: in those lonely weeks What on earth can he find to do? Well-he stroked the eight-what a splendid fate! And the Newczvestle ...

THE STORY OF A CREAT FAILURE

... estimated that there would be a los1 on these of £2,788 000. No commentary is needed on such figures; buoy speak- to the eye better than any words speak to the ear. And they are not, it is to be remembered, the whole of the real loss: they are the estimated ...