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The cross is quite enough for thee, 
Though little it appears; 
For there is hid in it the weight 
Of the eternal years. 
And knowest thou not how bitterness 
An ailing spirit cheers? 
Thy medicine is the strengthening thought 
Of the eternal years. 
One cross can sanctify a soul; 
Late saints and ancient seers 
Were what they ivere, because they mused 
Upon the eternal years. 
He practices all virtue well , 
Who his own cross reveres; 
And lives in the familiar thought 
Of the eternal years. 
f“i£ra<angold. 
A plant of several species, some of which are prized for the brilliancy 
and beauty of their flowers. The Marigold (ring-flower, gold-flower) is 
yellow; one kind is known as the Cowslip. 
“The Marigold that goes to bed with the sun.” 
Indolence—Sloth—Idleness. 
“If I rest, I rust.”— German Proverb. 
f bTDOLEMCE is equally degrading to individuals and to nations. Sloth 
never made its mark in the world, and never will. Sloth never climbed 
a hill, nor overcame a difficulty that it could avoid.' Indolence always 
failed in life, and always must. It is in the nature of things that it should 
