"Of all the great Humane actions I ever heard or read of, of what sort soever, I have observed both in former ages and our own, more performed before the age of thirty than after, and oft-times in the very lives of the same Men."-MONTAIGNE.

T. NELSON AND SONS
London, Edinburgh, and New York

1890 PATTY.

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YOUTHI.

And first, O youth, I see thee with the plume
Of thy thick locks upon thy forehead set,
And thy frank eyes kindling with fire, or dim
With soaring thoughts of heaven, or wet
With kindly dews of pity; the straight limb,
And the strong arm, and force that never tires;
The cheek and lip touched with the early down
Of manhood's fullest crown;

The heart, which hardly thought of passion fires;
The mind, which opens like a flower in spring
To all the wanton airs the seasons bring;
The young existence, self-contained no longer,
But pressing outward, hour by hour,
Fired with a thirst continually stronger,
For some supreme white flower.

Whatever be the prize

Whether upon the difficult heights of Thought,
Or 'midst the white laborious dust of Duty,
Or on the peaks of Power, the bloom be sought,
Or in the flush and thrill of the new Beauty
Born of a maiden's eyes.

LEWIS MORRIS, Ode of Life.