Life grows better every day,
If we live in deed and truth;
So I am not used to grieve

For the vanished joys of youth.

For though early hopes may die,
Early dreams be rudely crossed;
Of the past we still can keep

Treasures more than we have lost.

July 26.

Better to stem with heart and hand
The roaring tide of life, than lie,
Unmindful, on its flowery strand,

Phabe Cary.

Of God's occasions drifting by!
Better with naked nerve to bear
The needles of this goading air,
Than in the lap of sensual ease, forego

The godlike power to do, the godlike aim to
J. G. Whittier.

know.

July 27.

All the world lies wide before you,
Where to choose the wrong or right;

And no future shall restore you

What you seize not now with might.

Let each act be the sure token
Of the nobler life ahead: -

Let each thought in truth be spoken,
Though the utterance strike you dead.
T. B. Read.

July 26.

July 27.

Great men are few and stand apart;
And seem divinest when remote.

And when we meet them, face to face,
And hand to hand their greatness greet,

Our steps we willingly retrace,

And gather humbly at their feet,

With those who live upon their grace.

July 29.

7. G. Holland.

Lowly and meek in spirit, and patiently suffering all things,

Fair was she and young, but alas!

Something there was in her life incomplete, imper

fect, unfinished.

H. W. Longfellow.

By him the deepest rest is won
Who toils beneath the noonday sun,
Faithful until his work is done.

July 30.

Phabe Cary.

Quick to perceive, in him no freedom rude Reproved full confidence: friendship, the meat His soul had starved without, with gratitude Was taken.

Mrs. M. G. Brooks.

God keep thine heart from growing old

Now and for ever!

E. L. Beers.

July 29.

July 30.

And oh when others take our place,
And Earth's green curtain hides our face,
Ere on the stage, so silent now,

The last new hero makes his bow:
So may our deeds, recalled once more
In Memory's sweet but brief encore,
Down all the circling ages run,

With the world's plaudit of "Well done!"

Bret Harte.