DECEMBER 28 
Sorrow. 
Past sorrows, let us mod’rately lament them : 
For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them. 
y<*'eBSTER, 
Sorrow for past ills doth restore frail man 
To his first innocence. 
J'Jabb. 
DECEMBER 29 --- 
Yucca - 
Authority. 
Not from gray hairs authority doth flow, 
Nor from bald heads, nor from a wrinkled brow; 
But our past life, when virtuously spent, 
Must to our age those happy fruits present. 
Pbnham. 
.-.. DECEMBER 30 --- 
Zephyr Flower .....—.— Anticipation . 
In our hearts fair hope lay smiling 
Sweet as air, and all beguiling; 
And there hung a mist of bluebells on the slope and down 
the dell; 
And we talked of joy and splendour 
That the years unborn would render, 
And the blackbirds helped us with the story, for they knew it well. 
Jean Jngelow. 
