CHARACTER THE sun set, but set not his hope: Deeper and older seemed his eye; He spoke, and words more soft than rain His action won such reverence sweet CULTURE CAN rules or tutors educate Shall into Future fuse the Past, And the world's flowing fates in his own mould recast. FRIENDSHIP A RUDDY drop of manly blood The world uncertain comes and goes; And, after many a year, Like daily sunrise there. My careful heart was free again, Through thee alone the sky is arched, Through thee the rose is red; All things through thee take nobler form, And look beyond the earth, The mill-round of our fate appears A sun-path in thy worth. Me too thy nobleness has taught To master my despair; The fountains of my hidden life Are through thy friendship fair.' SPIRITUAL LAWS THE living Heaven thy prayers respect, And, by the famous might that lurks Makes flame to freeze and ice to boil; BEAUTY Was never form and never face With the beryl beam of the broken wave; MANNERS GRACE, Beauty and Caprice Build this golden portal; Graceful women, chosen men, Dazzle every mortal. Their sweet and lofty countenance His enchanted food; He need not go to them, their forms He looketh seldom in their face, Too weak to win, too fond to shun The much deceived Endymion ART GIVE to barrows, trays and pans Plant gardens lined with lilacs sweet; |