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"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,
To teach the young idea how to shoot,
To pour the fresh instruction o'er the mind,
To breathe the enlivening spirit, and to fix
The generous purpose in the glowing breast!

THOMSON.

Our most important are our earliest years;
The mind, impressible and soft, with ease
Imbibes and copies what she hears and sees;
And through life's labyrinth holds fast the
clue

That education gives her, false or true.
COWPER.

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;
And smiles and fragrance rule serene,
Where barren wild usurped the scene.
And such is man-a soil which breeds
Or sweetest flowers, or vilest weeds;
Flowers lovely as the morning's light,
Weeds deadly as an aconite;
Just as his heart is trained to bear
The poisonous weed, or flow'ret fair.
BOWRING.

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;
And lead him to the holy cross-
He cannot go alone-

EDUCATION.

And teach, betimes, those rosy lips,
Ere stain may gather there,
To lisp of God; those infant knees
O teach to bow in prayer.

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
To childish ears are vain,

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And say to mothers, what a holy charge
Is theirs; with what a kingly power their love
Might rule the fountains of the new-born
mind;

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,
With its careless, thoughtless air,
Like the verdant, tangled wildwood,
Wants the training hand of care.
Childhood is the vernal season;

Trim and train the tender shoot;
Love is to the coming reason

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
Some radiance to impart;

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:
'Twas ne'er entailed from sire to son.
GAY.

Break oblivion's sleep,

And toil with florist's art,
To plant the germs of virtue deep
In childhood's fruitful heart.

To thee the babe is given,

Fair from its glorious Sire;
Go, nurse it for the King of heaven,
And he will pay the hire.

MRS. SIGOURNEY.

Source of truth, whose rays alone
Light the mighty world of mind;
God of love, who from thy throne

Kindly watchest all mankind;
Shed on those who in thy name

Teach the way of truth and right—
Shed that love's undying flame-

Shed that wisdom's guiding light.
BRYANT.

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.

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Eats its slow way into the solid oak;

But Envy, of all evil things the worst,
The same to-day, to-morrow, and forever,
Saps and consumes the heart in which it

works.

CUMBERLAND.

And next to him malicious Envy rode
Upon a ravenous wolf, and still did chaw
Between his cankered teeth a venomous toad,
That all the poison ran about his jaw;
But inwardly he chawèd his own maw
At neighbor's wealth that made him sad;
For death it was when any good he saw:
And wept, that cause of weeping none he had; Nest there, and hiss, and feed through all thy
And when he heard of harm, he waxed won-

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O Envy! hide thy bosom! hide it deep;
A thousand snakes, with black, envenomed
mouths,

heart.

POLLOK.

Beside thine hearth, thine home within,
Lies couched and still a deadly sin,

O chain it while 'tis time!
Learn on thy brother's joy to gaze
With thankful eye; and heaven's high counsel
praise,

That crowned him with the forfeit of thy crime.
KEBLE.

My heart laments that virtue cannot live,
Out of the teeth of emulation.

SHAKSPEARE.

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