What constitutes a State What is life? 'tis but a vapour What shall I do, lest life in silence pass? Where is the fame Yet once more saith the fool, yet once more, and is it not a little one Ye say they all have passed away Your voiceless lips, O flowers! are living preachers PAGE 71 21 63 78 The compiler of this little work expresses his thanks to Messrs. Longman and Co., Mr. Moxon, Messrs. Blackwood and Sons, Messrs. R. Browning, M. Tupper, and other Authors and Publishers, for their permission to use copyright pieces. THE EDUCATIONAL TRADING COMPANY, LIMITED, LONDON, BIRMINGHAM, AND BRISTOL. There let the shepherd's flute, the virgin's lay, In the void waste, as in the city full, And where He vital breathes, there must be joy. Come then expressive Silence, muse His praise. THOMSON. PRINCE ARTHUR PLEADING WITH HUBERT Have you a heart? When your head did but ache (The best I had, a princess wrought it me,) And I did never ask it you again; And with my hand at midnight held your head, Saying, What lack you, and where lies your grief? |