Aubade THE lark now leaves his wat'ry nest, And climbing shakes his dewy wings. He takes this window for the East, And to implore your light he sings- Awake, awake! the morn will never rise Till she can dress her beauty at your eyes. The merchant bows unto the seaman's star, The ploughman from the sun his season takes, But still the lover wonders what they are Who look for day before his mistress wakes. Awake, awake! break thro' your veils of lawn! Then draw your curtains, and begin the dawn!

Faith lights us through the dark to Deity.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

Slow seems their speed whose thoughts before them run.

What one cannot, another can.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.

All jealousy must be strangled in its birth.