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Yet—perhaps, you should pause aud wait another while, and take 
advice, “the good counsels of a friend being sweet to the soul,” because 
“First-love too oft is love without esteem, 
Or mutual honor, seeking- in a wife 
No help, no shelter, but a soothing beam 
To minister a sunshine to our life: 
The growth of one wild hour! and thereof come 
Dull-hearted unions and a listless home. 
I have known men to whom it hath been given 
To make one shipwreck on love’s rocky coast; 
And they have lived to teach as though from Heaven, 
That he is blest whose first-love hath been crossed.” 
— F. W. Faber. 
And, says Schiller, 
“Where gentleness with strength we find, 
The tender with the stern combined, 
The harmony is sweet and strong. 
Then prove, e'er wedlock's wreath betwined 
If heart to heart its fetters bind! 
Illusion's brief, repentance long.” 
Live Oal\. 
“Hardy and noble tree.” 
“Type of a nation brave and free.” 
—Theodor Koerner. 
The oak is a tree of the genus Quercus, of which there are many 
species. The live oak is Q. virens, and is very highly prized for ship¬ 
building. 
