...stranger intermeddleth not with its joy." And until the sentence shall be reversed, which says — Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh, so it must ever be. Beatrice listened with tearful reverence to her father's...

...and re-read the little book you gave me ; indeed, I know many of its hymns by heart. Now, listen. " ' Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone — so Heaven had willed — we die ? Nor even the tenderest heart and next we own, Knows half the reasons why we...

...heart knoweth his own bitterness ; and a stranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. Prov. xiv. 10. Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile...

...earth Ft Mr. Lockhart, in the closing chapter of his admirable Life of Scott, quoting Keble's lines, Not even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile or sigh, declares considerations of this kind to have always induced him to regard...

...are those vows, and well performed, Which at such times we undertake. IMPERFECTION OF HUMAN SYMPATHY WHY should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone — so Heaven has willed — we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile and sigh? Each...

...knoweth its own bitterness ;" and a wise poet of our own time thus beautifully expands the saying — " Why should we faint, and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile...

...intermeddle with his joy," to he one of the most pathetic and beautiful poems in our language :— " Why should we faint and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven had will'd, we die, Nor even the tenderest heart, and next our own, Knows half the reasons why we smile...

...Strive not to wind ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky ;" Or," Why should we shrink and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we die ? " readers, that, almost as in Scripture itself, we always discover in them something fresh and new,...

...Strive not to wind ourselves too high, For sinful man beneath the sky ; " Or," Why should we shrink and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has willed, we diet" But in fact it may be truly said that there is hardly a poem in the volume without some thought...

...intermeddle with his own joy ; ' and a wise poet of our own tune thus beautifully expandí the saying — ' Why should we faint and fear to live alone, • Since all alone, so Lfeaven has willed, we die, Nor oven the tenderest heart, and next oor own Knows half the reasons whv...