Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MARCH Maech First The sky was blue; without one cloud of gloom, The sun of March was shining brightly, And to the air the freshening wind gave lightly Its breathings of perfume. The Blind Girl of Castel-CuiUe. March Second Never here, forever there, Where all parting, pain, and care, And death, and time shall disappear,— Forever there, but never here! The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this incessantly,— "Forever—never! Never—forever!" The Old Clock on the Stairs. W WWWW 5KWK ?? ?? ??'???li:i March Third Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak. It serves for food and raiment. The Golden Legend. March Fourth For the structure that we raise, Time is with materials filled; Our to-days and yesterdays Are the blocks with which we build. Truly shape and fashion these; Leave no yawning gaps between; Think not, because no man sees, Such things will remain unseen. The Builder. March Fifth Let not him that putteth his hand to the plough look backwards; Though the ploughshare cut through the flowers of life to its fountains, Though it pass o'er the graves of the dead and the hearts of the living, It is the will of the Lord; and his mercy en- dureth forever! The Courtship of Miles Standish. March Sixth So long as Time is, is Atonement. The Children of the Lord's Supper. March Seventh You do not look on life and death as I do. There are two angels, that attend unseen Each one of us, and in great books record Our good and evil deeds. He who writes down The good ones, after every action closes His volume, and ascends with it to God. The other keeps his dreadful day-book open Till sunset, that we may repent ; which doing, The record of the action fades away, And leaves a line of white across the page. The G...