Calendar: 1870-1871 Page 565

THE SCHOOL that there were nations not descended from Adam it being possible for them to have passed the intervening ocean III -CranSlate into Hattn Clrgtacsl She's 1ny mind's companion still Spite of Envy's evil will She doth tell me where to borrow Comfort in the midst of sorrow Makes the desolatest place To her presence be grace And the blackest discontents To be pleasing ornaments In my former days of bliss Her divine skill aught me tbis That from everything saw could some invention draw And raise pleasure to her height Through the nearest object's sight By the murmur of spring Or the least bough mstleing By dai -y whose leaves spread Shut when Titan goes 10 bed Or shady bush or tree She could more infuse in me Than all nature's beauties can In some other wiser man George Wither Of his Muse IV -EranSlatt into reck iambics But wnefull Lady let me you intrete For to unfold the anguish of your hart Mishaps are maisired by advice discrete And counsell mitigates the greatest smart Found never help who never would his hurts impart "O but quoth she "great griefe will not be tould And can more easily be thought than said Right so quotli he "but he that never would Could never will to might gives greatest aid