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REASON-RECALL.

2. In pomp transcendent, rob'd in heavenly dies, Arch'd the clear rainbow round the orient skies.

DR. DWIGHT.

3. Far up the blue sky, a fair rainbow unroll'd
Its soft-tinted pinions of purple and gold.
'T was born in a moment, yet, quick as its birth,
It had stretch'd to the uttermost ends of the earth;
And, fair as an angel, it floated as free,

With a wing on the earth, and a wing on the sea.
MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY.

REASON. (See MIND.)

RECALL.

1. Something, since his going forth, is thought of, That his return is now most necessary.

2. How angrily I taught my brow to frown,
When inward joy enforc'd my heart to smile.
My penance is, to call **** back,
And ask remission for my folly past.

3. Fain would my tongue his griefs appease, And give his tortur'd bosom ease.

4. I did not know I lov'd him so, Until I bade him leave me ;

SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE.

ADDISON'S Rosamond.

I did not know, when he should go,
His absence thus would grieve me.
But, since he's gone, I feel forlorn,
I think all day about him:
I'll cancel all—I'll him recall,
For I'm a wretch without him.

J. T. WATSON.

RECIPROCITY.

1. Mutual love, the crown of all our bliss.

2. Where heart meets heart, reciprocally soft, Each other's pillow to repose divine.

3. Be thine the more refin'd delights Of love, that banishes control,

MILTON.

YOUNG.

When the fond heart with heart unites,
And soul's in unison with soul.

4. And canst thou not accord thy heart In unison with mine

Whose language thou alone hast heard,

Thou only canst divine?

5. O, let us prize the first-blown bud of love; Let us love now, in this our fairest youth, When love can find a full and fond return.

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CARTWRIGHT.

RUFUS DAWES.

J. G. PERCIVAL.

Which, kindled by another, grows the same,
Wrapt in one blaze.

BYRON'S Childe Harold.

7. Earth hath not-Oh! hath Heaven so sweet

A charm as that, once only known,

When first affection's accents greet

The ear that drinks their thrilling tone!

Ladies' Magazine.

RECONCILIATION.

1. The short passing anger but seem'd to awaken

New beauties, like flowers that are sweetest when shaken.

MOORE.

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REFINEMENT-REFLECTION - RELIGION.

2. Well do vanish'd frowns enhance

The charms of every brighten'd glance,
And dearer seems each dawning smile,
For having lost its light awhile.

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Was destin'd-in a finer mould was wrought,

And temper'd with a purer, brighter flame.

2. She's noble, noble-one to keep Embalm'd for dreams of fever's sleep,

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AKENSIDE.

N. P. WILLIS.

REFLECTION. (See CONTEMPLATION.)

REFUSAL. (See CONSENT.)

RELIGION.-(See PRAYER.)

REMORSE-REPENTANCE.

1. Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow Be a sufficient ransom for offence,

I tender it here; I do as truly suffer

As e'er I did offend.

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8. High minds, of native pride and force,
Most deeply feel thy pangs, remorse :
Fear for their scourge mean villains have;
Thou art the torturer of the brave.

BYRON.

BYRON.

SCOTT's Marmion.

9. Remorse drops anguish from her burning eyes, Feels hell's eternal worm, and, shuddering, dies.

CHARLES SPRAGUE.

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REPENTANCE - REPORT - RUMOUR.

10. Pangs more corrosive and severe,

More fierce, more poignant and intense,
Than ever hostile sword or spear

Wak'd in the breast of innocence.

MRS. HOLFORD'S Margaret of Anjou.

REPENTANCE.-(See REMORSE.)

REPORT - RUMOUR.

1. Then straight thro' all the world 'gan fame to fly; A monster swifter none is under sun;

2.

Increasing, as in waters we descry

The circles small, of nothing that begun,

Till of the drops, which from the skies do fall,
The circles spread and hide the waters all.

Rumour's a pipe

Mirror for Magistrates.

Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures;
And of so easy and so plain a stop,

That the blunt monster with uncounted heads,
The still, discordant, wavering multitude,
Can play upon it.

SHAKSPEARE.

3. It must be so ; - for Thomas Brown, Esquire,
Heard Blab's wife tell the son of Mr. Smith,
(Him, that was christen'd John, after his sire
Men often to transmit their names desire,)—
That Higgons said, while he was walking with
That charming maiden lady aged forty,

'Yclept Miss Catchem, (Higgons was her beau,)
She told him (confidentially) that naughty
And prattling gossip, Mrs. Wilkins, thought she
Heard Polly's cousin's sister's aunt say so.

J. T. WATSON.

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