Sir Jno. Denham.

That are so wondrous sweet and fair. Waller, Go, lovely Rose.
Intemperate youth, by sad experience found,
Ends in an age imperfect and unsound.
Something of youth I in old age approve;
But more the marks of age in youth I love.
Who this observes may in his body find
Decrepit age, but never in his mind.
Grief seldom join'd with youthful bloom is seen;
Can sorrow be where knowledge scarce has been?

Sir Jno. Denham.

Howard, Indian Queen.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow ;
Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so. Pope, E. C. 438.
Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows,
While proudly riding o'er the azure realm

In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes,

Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm ;
Regardless of the sweeping whirlwind's sway,
That, hush'd in grim repose, expects his evening prey.

Gray, Bard, II. 2.

The charms of youth at once are seen and past;
And Nature says,
They are too sweet to last."

66

So blooms the rose, and so the blushing maid;

Be gay too soon the flowers of Spring will fade. Sir W. Jones.
Be it a weakness, it deserves some praise,
We love the play-place of our early days.
The scene is touching, and the heart is stone,
That feels not at that sight, and feels at none.

Oh! the joy

Cowper, Tirocinium, 296.

Of young ideas painted on the mind,
In the warm glowing colours fancy spreads
On objects not yet known, when all is new,
And all is lovely.

Hannah More, David and Goliah.

I can remember, with unsteady feet,

Tottering from room to room, and finding pleasure

In flowers, and toys, and sweetmeats, things which long
Have lost their power to please; which when I see them,
Raise only now a melancholy wish,

I were the little trifler once again
Who could be pleas'd so lightly.
What is youth?-a dancing billow,
Winds behind, and rocks before!

Southey, Thalaba.

Wordsworth.

YOUTH-continued.

YOUTH-ZEAL.

Ah who, when fading of itself away,

Would cloud the sunshine of his little day!
Now is the May of life. Careering round,
Joy wings his feet, joys lift him from the ground!

Let them exult! their laugh and song
Are rarely known to last too long;
Why should we strive, with cynic frown,
To knock their fairy castles down.

Live that thy young and glowing breast
Can think of death without a sigh,
And be assured that life is best
Which finds us least afraid to die.

715

Rogers, Human Life.

There is nothing can equal the tender hours
When life is first in bloom,

When the heart like a bee, in a wild of flowers,
Finds everywhere perfume;

When the present is all and it questions not

If those flowers shall pass away,

But pleas'd with its cwn delightful lot,
Dreams never of decay.

ZEAL, ZEALOTS-see Bigotry, Faith, Saints.

Zeal and duty are not slow;

Eliza Cook.

Eliza Cook.

MS.

But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. Milton, P. R. 1.172.

His zeal

None seconded, as out of season judg'd,

Or singular and rash.

No seared conscience is so fell

Milton, P. L. v. 849.

As that, which has been burn'd with zeal ;

For Christian charity's as well

A great impediment to zeal,

As zeal's a pestilent disease

To Christian charity and peace.

Butler, Misc. Thoughts.

Easy still it proves, in factious times,
With public zeal to cancel private crimes.

Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel, 1. 180.

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