And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it _fell_: and great was the _fall_ of it.--Matthew, vii. 26, 27. And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the _fall_ and rising again of many in Israel.--Luke, ii. 34. Poor race of men! said the pitying Spirit, Dearly ye pay for your primal _Fall_-- Some flowerets of Eden ye still inherit, But the trail of the serpent is over them all! _Thomas Moore._ Alas--the evil that we fain would shun We do, and leave the wished-for good undone; Our strength to-day Is but to-morrow’s weakness, prone to _fall_; Poor, blind, unprofitable servants, all, Are we alway. _J. G. Whittier._ Grim-hearted world, that look’st with Levite eyes On those poor _fallen_ by too much faith in man, She that upon thy freezing threshold lies, Starved to more sinning by thy savage ban,-- Seeking that refuge because foulest vice More godlike than thy virtue is, whose span Shuts out the wretched only,--is more free From all her crimes than thou wilt ever be. Thou wilt not let her wash thy dainty feet With such salt things as tears, or with rude hair Dry them, soft Pharisee, that sit’st at meat With him who made her such, and speak’st him fair, Leaving God’s wandering lamb the while to bleat Unheeded, shivering in the pitiless air: Thou hast made prisoned virtue shew more wan And haggard, than a vice to look upon. _James R. Lowell._ FAME. So the Lord was with Joshua; and his _fame_ was noised throughout all the country.--Joshua, vi. 27. And the _fame_ of David went out into all lands; and the Lord brought the fear of him upon all nations.--I. Chronicles, xiv. 17. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people. And his _fame_ went throughout all Syria.--Matthew, iv. 23, 24.