"But ye that have seen how the ages have shrunk from my rod, And how red is the winepress wherein at my bidding they trod." --_The Paradox_. The Tree of Knowledge. 19 T.J. "Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree, whose Mortal taste Brought death into the World and all our woe . . . Sing Heavenly Muse." --_Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I_. Truth Endureth Forever. 139 S.A. "It fortifies my soul to know That, though I perish, Truth is so: That, howsoe'er I stray and range, Whate'er I do Thou dost not change. I steadier step when I recall That, if I slip, Thou dost not fall." --_Arthur Hugh Clough, Ambarvalia_. The Unknown God. 407 L.J. "Greece, Egypt, Rome,--did any god Before whose feet men knelt unshod Deem that in this unblest abode Another scarce more unknown god Should house with him, from Nineveh?" --_Rossetti, The Burden of Nineveh_. Unto Seventy Times Seven. 186 L.J. "We poor ill-tempered mortals--must forgive, Though seven times sinning threescore times and ten." --_Holmes, Manhood_. The Valley of the Shadow. 35 S.A. "Drew to the valley Named of the shadow." --_Tennyson, Merlin and the Gleam_. {156} Vine and Fig Tree 456 H.T., 369 S.A. "You may see as thorough patriarchs as Abraham was any day, and as carefully visited by angels, sitting under their vine and fig tree." --_Ruskin, Notes_. Voice Crying in the Wilderness. 65 L.J. "In this bleak wilderness I hear A John the Baptist crying." --_Lowell, An Interview with Miles Standish_. Walking on the Waters. 148 L.J. "So Lycidas sunk low, but mounted high Through the dear might of Him that walked the waves." --_Milton, Lycidas, line 172_. The Water of Life. 508 L.J. "The natural thirst ne'er quenched but from the well Whereof the woman of Samaria craved." --_Dante, Divine Comedy_. Weaver's Beam. 386 H.T. "Then for her spear she might have a weaver's beam." --_Ruskin, Crown of Wild Olive_. Weighed in the Balance. 206 T.J. "Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance." --_Shelley, A Defence of Poetry_. We Spend Our Years as a Tale That is Told. 104 S.A.