PARAPHRASES 
I. 
(Emerson) 
Easy in solitude 
To live aright 
Tn all the soul’s completeness, 
Greater, amid the multitude, 
Still to be true to right 
And keep with perfect. sweetness, 
The freedom born of solitude. 
II. 
(Ingersoll) 
When the day is done 
And the work, though slight, 
Ts finished beneath the sun, 
_ When the gold of eve 
Meets the dusk of night, __ 
*Neath the silent stars of the upper deep 
The tired laborer falls asleep. 
TI. 
(Landor) 
When Love doth find the soul, 
The body is as nought 
And only turns to it 
As to an afterthought. 
Its best. allurements at the last 
Are but the nuts and figs of the divine repast. 
IV. 
° (Chs. Wagner) 
Our needs 
Grow with our satisfactions, 
And our greeds 
Still more imperious in their exactions. 
A lot so glad, so sad, so bad, 
And so lamented— 
Both satisfied and discontented ! 
Si 
(Margaret Fuller) 
Reverence the highest, 
Be patient with the lowest. 
Are the stars too distant? 
Regard the thing that’s nighest. 
Still persistent, 
Pick the pebble at thy feet 
As thou goest. 
VI. 
(Mark Twain) 
[This is a versified inquirv 
Taken from Pudd’n-Head Wilson’s diary. ] 
Tf you would habit break, . 
What is the course that you would take? 
Would you with the tenderest care, 
Lead it downward stair by stair, 
Or, without pity or parley or wait, 
Throw it out of the window straight? 
: VIT. 
(Walt Whitman) 
This dust was once a man 
Of rarest traits: 
Gentle, plain, resolute, ; 
Under whose cautious hand, 
Against the foulest crime 
Of any land or time, 
Was saved the Union of these States. 
—Joseph A. Torrey in the Boston Transcript. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE . grt 
RANDOM THOUGHTS. 
By D. F. Lamson. 
No. LV. 
The discomfort of hot weather may be more easily 
borne when we stop to think how needful it is to all 
vegetable, and so to all animal life; if the heat of summer 
were not experienced, we may be sure that some worse 
things would be. 
A man distinguished for culture and position, refer- 
ring to the responsibility of preachers and _ public 
speakers, has lately said that he was often afraid at the 
thought of addressing the audiences that he met; many 
ef his hearers of not half his years or wisdom or ex- 
perience would no doubt scorn the idea of being afraid 
of appearing before any audience they did not know 
enough to be atraid; certain ae we are told, rush in 
where angels iear to tread. 
A great many spend weeks at the seaside and the 
mountains, and all the memcries that they have to bring 
home are those of balls and flirtations, of dinner parties 
and tennis courts and golf links; while others live again 
for months in the remembrance of sunsets, and mountain 
vistas, and forest depths. and the many-twinkling smile 
of ocean, and the music of its surge. So true is it that 
there must be the inward sense for the outward world te 
appeal to, that. we ‘‘receive bunt what we give, and in our 
life alone does nature live.’’ 
The great advance in public sentiment in England and 
America in favor of arbitration and the Imitation of 
armaments, is one of the most hopeful of recent indica- 
tions of national sanity; when nations are controlled by 
common sense war will be a thing abhorred like the 
fabled Minotaur or Victor Hugo’s devilfish; the wonder 
will be that men ealling themselves civilized once re- 
sorted to it as a means of redressing national grievances 
or of settling national disputes of boundary or jurisdic- 
tion, of enlarging their borders or increasing their 
wealth. 
The material prosperity of the country is increasing 
by leaps and bounds; but this hardly overbalances the 
Icss of some things among us; what can compensate for 
the passing of the frugal ecmfort, contentment and in-- 
telligence that once characterized rural New England? 
Ts the vastly greater luxury and display of the present 
day to be valued for a moment with the solid virtues of 
thrift, economy and independence once common in all 
our country towns? 
To put oneself or one’s preferences foremost is mark 
of a narrow, small, selfish nature, as to think of other’s 
convenience or happiness first is certainly a sign of a 
broad, generous and noble soul. 
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In the nice ‘‘ear of Nature,’’ at this tuneful season, 
there are many grades of harmony but no discord ; what 
scems so to us is but the reflection of our dull sense; had 
we an ear as perfectly attuned as Nature’s is, the dis- 
harmonies and dissonanees that often jar upon us would 
resolve themselves into a majestic anthem, its keynote 
‘*Praise God from whom all blessings flow.’’ 
