July 2.

July 3.

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State !
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!

Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,

Are all with thee, are all with thee!

H. W. Longfellow.

We need not die to go to God.

July 5.

Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney.

If word of mine another's gloom has brightened, Through my dumb lips the heaven-sent message

came;

If hand of mine another's task has lightened,
It felt the guidance that it dares not claim.

I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.

July 6.

O. W. Holmes.

7. G. Whittier.

Hast thou unto thy higher self been true,
The godhead in thee ever kept in sight?

The lower rightly using didst thou view

But as a stepping-stone to some sublimer height?

Joshua Kendall.

Because you cannot pluck the flower,

You pass the sweet scent by;

Because you cannot have the stars,
You will not see the sky.

E. S. Phelps.

July 5.

July 6.

She never was a child to us,

We never held her being's key;

We could not teach her holy things:

She was Christ's self in purity.

T. B. Aldrich.

July 8.

I have my cares.

In every lot

We find their faces sad;

But when I count those I have not
My very heart grows glad.

O God! I thank Thee that I may
Such cares trust all to Thee,
Who watches all Thy hand has made
As tireless as eternity.

July 9.

E. L. Beers.

Sweet and thoughtful maiden, sitting by my side, All the world's before you and the world is wide; Hearts are there for winning, hearts are there to

break,

Has your own, shy maiden, just begun to wake?

Is that rose of dawning glowing on your cheek
Telling us in blushes what you will not speak?
Shy and tender maiden, I would fain forego
All the golden future, just to keep you so.

Mrs. L. C. Moulton.

July 8.

July 9.