“The voice of the song and the banquet was o’er, And I hung up my chaplet at Glycera’s door, When the mischievous girl from a window above, Who looked down and laughed at the offering of love, Filled with water a goblet whence Bacchus had fled, And poured all the crystal contents on my head. So drenched was my hair, three whole days it resisted All attempts of the barber to friz it or twist it; But the water (so whimsical, Love, are thy ways!) While it put out my curls, set my heart in a blaze.” J. H. MERIVALE. THE GREEK ANTHOLOGY. =The Anthology= (_bunch of flowers_) is a collection of more than four thousand short pithy poems, from the pens of about three hundred Greek writers. Melea’ger was the first gatherer of these literary flowers; his “Garland” contained choice morsels of poetry from the time of Sappho down, many of the best pieces being the work of his own hand. “Meleager’s poetry,” says Symonds, “has the sweetness of the rose, the full-throated melody of the nightingale.” Others added to Meleager’s collection, the last ancient anthologist being the historian Aga’thias, who flourished at Constantinople in the reign of Justinian. The pieces of the Greek Anthology are epigrams and fugitive verses, amatory, witty, and didactic. Some of them compare favorably with the best efforts of the writers already considered; while not a few are plainly the sources of some of the household sayings and proverbial philosophy of modern times. (_Consult Macgregor’s “Greek Anthology.”_) FLOWERS FROM THE ANTHOLOGY. A PIOUS ACT REWARDED. “While from the strand his line a fisher threw, Shoreward a shipwrecked human head he drew. His moistened eyes soft drops of pity shed, While gazing on the bald and trunkless head. No spade he had; but while his active hands Scraped a small grave among the yielding sands, A store of gold, there hid, he found. Yes! yes! Heaven will the just man’s pious actions bless.” CARPHYLLIDES. “Enjoy your goods as if your death were near; Save them as if ’twere distant many a year. Sparing or spending, be thy wisdom seen In keeping ever to the golden mean.”—LUCIAN. THE PARTNERSHIP. “Damon, who plied the undertaker’s trade, With Doctor Cra’teas an agreement made. What linens Damon from the dead could seize, He to the Doctor sent for bandages; While the good Doctor, here no promise-breaker, Sent all his patients to the undertaker.” “Swift kindnesses are best; a long delay In kindness takes the kindness all away.” THE LESSON OF THE TOPS.