To most persons a sense of obligation is insupportable; beware upon whom you inflict it. Bear me, good oceans, to some isle Where I may never fear The snake alurk in woman's smile, The tiger in her tear. Yet bear not with me her, O deeps, Who never smiles and never weeps. Life and Death threw dice for a child. "I win!" cried Life. "True," said Death, "but you need a nimbler tongue to proclaim your luck. The stake is already dead of age." How blind is he who, powerless to discern The glories that about his pathway burn, Walks unaware the avenues of Dream, Nor sees the domes of Paradise agleam! O Golden Age, to him more nobly planned Thy light lies ever upon sea and land. From sordid scenes he lifts his eyes at will, And sees a Grecian god on every hill! In childhood we expect, in youth demand, in manhood hope, and in age beseech. A violet softly sighed, A hollyhock shouted above. In the heart of the violet, pride; In the heart of the hollyhock, love. If women knew themselves the fact that men do not know them would flatter them less and content them more. The angel with a flaming sword slept at his post, and Eve slipped back into the Garden. "Thank Heaven! I am again in Paradise," said Adam.