"This world is full of beauty, as other worlds A bud of moral beauty. Let the dews above; Of knowledge, and the light of virtue, wake it And if we did our duty, it might be full of In richest fragrance and in purest hues; love." GERALD MASSEY. EDEN-(See ADAM.) EDUCATION-INSTRUCTION. "Tis education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined. РОРЕ. Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, THOMSON. Our most important are our earliest years; That education gives her, false or true. For soon the gathering hand of death will break it From its weak stem of life, and it shall lose All power to charm; but if that lovely flower Hath swelled one pleasure, or subdued one pain, O! who shall say that it has lived in vain? BOWRING. Culture's hand Has scattered verdure o'er the land; Character groweth day by day, and all things aid it in unfolding, And the bent unto good or evil may be given in the hours of infancy. TUPPER. O mother, take thy little son, A path to him unknown; EDUCATION. And teach, betimes, those rosy lips, W. B. TAPPAN. Scratch the green rind of a sapling, or wantonly twist it in the soil, The scarred and crooked oak will tell of thee for centuries to come; Even so may'st thou guide the mind to good, or lead it to the marrings of evil, For disposition is builded up by the fashioning of first impressions. TUPPER. Hold the little hands in prayer, teach the weak knees their kneeling; not forget it afterward; O say not, dream not heavenly notes 105 And say to mothers, what a holy charge Let him see thee speaking to thy God; he will Warn them to wake at early dawn, and sow Good seed before the world has sown its tares. MRS. SIGOURNEY. When old and gray will he feelingly remember a mother's tender piety, And the touching recollection of her prayers shall arrest the strong man in his sin. TUPPER. Childhood, sweet and sunny childhood, Trim and train the tender shoot; As the blossom to the fruit. DAVID BATES. O! teach him this should be our aim: To cheer the aching heart; To strive where thickest darkness reigns To spread a peaceful, quiet calm, Where dwells the noise of strife; Thus doing good, and blessing all, To spend the whole of life. ANONYMOUS. Learning by study must be won: Break oblivion's sleep, And toil with florist's art, To thee the babe is given, Fair from its glorious Sire; MRS. SIGOURNEY. Source of truth, whose rays alone Kindly watchest all mankind; Teach the way of truth and right— Shed that wisdom's guiding light. Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallowrooted; Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden, And choke the herbs for want of husbandry. SHAKSPEARE. Eats its slow way into the solid oak; But Envy, of all evil things the worst, works. CUMBERLAND. And next to him malicious Envy rode O Envy! hide thy bosom! hide it deep; heart. POLLOK. Beside thine hearth, thine home within, O chain it while 'tis time! That crowned him with the forfeit of thy crime. My heart laments that virtue cannot live, SHAKSPEARE. |