Ne’er sigh’d at the sound of a knell,
Or smil’d when a Sabbath appear’d.
1036
COWPER:  Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.

=Knowledge.=

Knowledge is as food, and needs no less
Her temp’rance over appetite, to know
In measure what the mind may well contain;
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns
Wisdom to folly.
1037
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. vii., Line 126.

All our knowledge is, ourselves to know. 1038 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 397.

I know—­is all the mourner saith,
Knowledge by suffering entereth;
And Life is perfected by Death!
1039
MRS. BROWNING:  Vision of Poets, St. 330.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. 1040 TENNYSON:  Locksley Hall, Line 141.

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne’er unroll. 1041 GRAY:  Elegy, St. 13.

Oh, be wiser thou! 
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
1042
WORDSWORTH:  Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree.

==L.==

=Labor.=

I have seen a swan
With bootless labor swim against the tide,
And spend her strength with over-matching waves.
1043
SHAKS.:  3 Henry VI., Act i., Sc. 4.

Labor, you know, is Prayer.
1044
BAYARD TAYLOR:  Improvisations, St. 11.

Taste the joy
That springs from labor.
1045
LONGFELLOW:  Masque of Pandora, Pt. vi.

To fall’n humanity our Father said,
That food and bliss should not be found unsought;
That man should labor for his daily bread;
But not that man should toil and sweat for nought.
1046
EBENEZER ELLIOTT:  Corn Law Hymns.

To labor is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe. 1047 POPE:  Iliad, Bk. x., Line 78.

=Ladies.=

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show ’T is to their changes half their charms we owe. 1048 POPE:  Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 41.

=Lake.=

On thy fair bosom, silver lake,
  The wild swan spreads his snowy sail,
And round his breast the ripples break
  As down he bears before the gale.
1049
JAMES G. PERCIVAL:  To Seneca Lake.

=Land.=

Breathes there the man with soul so dead
Who never to himself hath said
This is my own, my native land!
1050
SCOTT:  Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., St. 1.

O Caledonia! stern and wild,
Meet nurse for a poetic child! 
Land of brown heath and shaggy wood;
Land of the mountain and the flood!
1051
SCOTT:  Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto vi., St. 2.

=Landscape.=

The low’ring element
Scowls o’er the darken’d landscape
1052
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. ii., Line 490.