Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove
An unrelenting foe to love;
And when we meet a mutual heart,
Come in between and bid us part?
752
THOMSON:  Song.

=Frailty.=

Frailty, thy name is Woman!
753
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2.

I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death,
And from the organ-pipe of frailty sings
His soul and body to their lasting rest.
754
SHAKS.:  King John, Act v., Sc. 7.

=France.=

’Tis better using France, than trusting France; Let us be back’d with God, and with the seas, Which he hath given for fence impregnable, And with their helps only defend ourselves; In them, and in ourselves, our safety lies. 755 SHAKS.:  3 Henry VI., Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Fraternity.=

There are bonds of all sorts in this world of ours,
Fetters of friendship and ties of flowers,
  And true-lovers’ knots, I ween;
The girl and the boy are bound by a kiss,
But there ’s never a bond, old friend, like this,
  We have drunk from the same canteen.
756
CHARLES G. HALPINE ("MILES O’REILLY"):  The Canteen.

=Freedom.=

We must be free or die, who speak the tongue
That Shakespeare spake; the faith and morals hold
Which Milton held.
757
WORDSWORTH:  Sonnet.  It is not to be thought of, etc.

Oh, FREEDOM! thou art not, as poets dream,
A fair young girl, with light and delicate limbs,
And wavy tresses gushing from the cap
With which the Roman master crowned his slave
When he took off the gyves.  A bearded man,
Armed to the teeth, art thou; one mailed hand
Grasps the broad shield, and one the sword; thy brow,
Glorious in beauty though it be, is scarred
With tokens of old wars.
758
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT:  Antiquity of Freedom.

My angel,—­his name is Freedom,—­
Choose him to be your king;
He shall cut pathways east and west,
And fend you with his wing.
759
EMERSON:  Boston Hymn.

Then Freedom sternly said:  “I shun
No strife nor pang beneath the sun,
When human rights are staked and won.”
760
WHITTIER:  The Watchers.

When Freedom from her mountain-height
  Unfurled her standard to the air,
She tore the azure robe of night,
  And set the stars of glory there.
761
JOSEPH RODMAN DRAKE:  The American Flag.

=Freeman.=

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free. 762 COWPER:  Task, Bk. v., Line 733.

=Friendship.=

I count myself in nothing else so happy,
As in a soul rememb’ring my good friends.
763
SHAKS.:  Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 3.

The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch’d unfledged comrade. 764 SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3.