This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1865 edition. Excerpt: ... 60. THE SECRE1 TOLD. 1. Happy the man who well improves each frag ment of the yeaR; 2. On the great end of all things firmly fix'd is his ideA; 3. Round the wide world, unmoved, he hears the foaming billows roaR, 4. Seeking by learning's lamp for precious things from wisdom's storE, 5. Engaging still, with bravery, each foe to man's securitY. The subdued and the subduer. B. E. N. 61. Onward I toiled, my way was dark and drear, Until I saw thy smile; Then all was bright and clear; I felt no more the toil. 1. Stern Winter, thoumay'st frown, and with thy snow Bend down my head; I rise and shake it from my brow When thou art fled. 2. When round their altars Greeks were met Their gods to praise, Their voices high and clear, with joyous shout This cry they raise. 3. When German peasant calls his wife, or Dutch boor his, The former, me As the first letter of her name doth use; The latter, thee. 4. First slave that owned the rule of man, But not with pain; First rearer, nourisher, and trainer Of the cane. P. 62. We both wrote history: Our names a mystery. 1. What! wish he'd bite you? want him to begin it? 2. I'm not so short as you are here, indeed. 3. A calf's skin, but, I trust, no recreant in it. 4. The time of which we often think and read. 63. My first is tempted, yields, and dies; My second on the Black Sea lies; My third's a hill of sacred fame; Rugby knows well my fourth's dear name; My next should straight and perfect be; My sixth an island in the Zuyder Zee. Musicians twain we here may see High famed to all eternity. H. L. T. 64. How strange! two Christian nations to help the Turk are fighting. The name and nature of the place 'gainst which they are uniting. 1. The husband of one who a shrew was esteemed. 2. A country whose sages...