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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Charles Kingsley. (1819–1875) (continued)

7252

    The world goes up and the world goes down,
  And the sunshine follows the rain;
And yesterday’s sneer and yesterday’s frown
    Can never come over again.

Dolcino to Margaret.

7253

Toil is the true knight’s pastime.

The Saint’s Tragedy. Act i. Sc. ii.

7254

Oh that we two were Maying.

The Saint’s Tragedy. Act ii. Sc. ix.

7255

    Would that we two were lying
  Beneath the churchyard sod,
With our limbs at rest in the green earth’s breast,
  And our souls at home with God.

The Saint’s Tragedy. Act ii. Sc. ix.

7256

    Fools! who fancy Christ mistaken;
  Man a tool to buy and sell;
Earth a failure, God-forsaken,
  Ante-room of Hell.

The World’s Age.

7257

Pain is no evil,
Unless it conquer us.

St. Maura.

7258

Are gods more ruthless than mortals?
Have they no mercy for youth? no love for the souls who have loved them?

Andromeda.

7259

Sad, sad to think that the year is all but done.

The Starlings.

7260

In the light of fuller day,
Of purer science, holier laws. 1

On the Death of a certain Journal.

7261

    When all the world is old, lad,
  And all the trees are brown;
And all the sport is stale, lad,
  And all the wheels run down;

Water Babies. Song ii.

Note 1.
See Tennyson: Sweeter manners, purer laws, page 676. [back]

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