February 26th.

SIGH no more, ladies, sigh no more,

Men were deceivers ever,

One foot on sea, and one on shore.

To one thing constant never.

HE saw the crime

(Touching all future pleasures with a slime),
To stand before a true task face to face,
Then turn away, though secret the disgrace.
Man's life is double: hard its dues to give
Within, without, and thus completely live.

February 27th.

Shakespeare.

William Allingham.

How must a spirit late escaped from earth,
The truth of things new-blazing in his eye,
Look back astonished on the ways of men,
Whose lives' whole drift is to forget their graves!

Young.

THERE was awe in the homage which she drew;
Her spirit seemed as seated on a throne,
Apart from the surrounding world, and strong

In its own strength-most strange in one so young.

Byron.

February 28th.

FLOWERS are lovely; love is flower-like;

Friendship is a sheltering tree;

Oh! the joys that came down shower-like,
Of Friendship, Love, and Liberty,
Ere I was old!

LEARN the mystery of Progression duly :

Do not call each glorious change, Decay;
But know, we only hold our treasures truly,
When it seems as if they passed away.

Coleridge.

Adelaide A. Procter.

February 27th.

February 28th.

March 1st.

MARCH.

SLAYER of the Winter, art thou here

again?

O welcome, thou that bring'st the Summer

nigh!

The bitter wind makes not thy victory vain, Nor will we mock thee for thy faint blue

sky.

Welcome, O March! whose kindly days and

dry

Make April ready for the throstle's song, Thou first redresser of the Winter's wrong!

Yea, welcome, March! and though I die ere June,

Yet for the hope of life I give thee praise, Striving to swell the burden of the tune That even now I hear thy brown birds raise, Unmindful of the past or coming days; Who sing "O joy! a new year is begun : What happiness to look upon the

sun!"

William Morris.