Though scarce at first apparent to the sight,
The words which on the tender bark we write;
Yet how distinct, 'ere long, the letters shew
In size increased, as with the rind they grow!
So by degrees, as on that lettered bark,
Doth Time expand to flame, Love's slightest spark:
So to the germ of Vice in early youth,
Time gives the increase with the body's growth;
Spread to a depth no efforts can efface.
Froms small beginnings rise the fiercest strife;
Nor Love, nor Vice, at once leap into life:
The breeze at first so zephyr-like and warm,
Is but too oft the prelude of the storm.
That so it is; how many have to grieve!-
The mischief when full grown we can perceive;
But how it grew- we scarely can believe.
AMOR neque nos statim, neque vehementer ab initio, quemadmodum ira, invadit;
neque facilè ingressus, decedit, quamvis alatus: sed sensim ingreditur ac molliter,
manetque diu in sensibus. - PLURTARCH.
LABITUR sensim furor in medullas,
Igne furtivo populante venas,
Non habet Iatam data plaga frontem,
Sed vorat tectas penitùs medullas.- SENEC. Hippol.
LONG-WAITING love doth entrance find
Into the slow-believing mind. - SYDNEY GODOLPHIN.
THERE is no argument of more antiquity and elegancy than is the matter of Love;
for it seems to be as old as the world, and to bear from the first time that man
and woman was: therefore in this, as in her finest metal, the freshest wits have in all
ages shown their best workmanship.- ROBERT WILMOT.
WE are not worst at once-the course of evil
Begins so slowly, and from such slight source,
An infant's hand might stem its breach with clay;
But let the stream get deeper, and Philosophy-
Aye, and Religion too - shall strive in vain
To turn the headlong torrent. - Old Play.
Tempus omnia revelat.
TERTULLIAN.
THERE is nothing covered that shall not be revealed; and hid that shall not be
known.- Matthew x.26.
By degrees, until Christ be formed in you.- Galatians iv. 19.
Till we all come in the unity of the Faith, and of the Knowledge of the Son of
God into a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ,
- Ephesians iv.13.
DESPAIR not that the writing on the tree,
So indistinct at first appear to thee:
Of one day's growth was Virtue never known;
The light of Grace spreads by degrees alone:
Until troughout illumin'd by its ray,
The Soul of Man made perfct in each way
By Faith and Works, is fitted to partake
The joys of Heav'n for his Redeemer's sake.
ALTHOUGH the operations of Nature are hidden, we must acknowledge the hand of
a Power which acts in secret, as we acknowledge-a force which attracts heavy bodies
to the earth, or which carries light bodies upwards. - MARCUS AURELIUS.
Medium Sol aureus orbem
Occupat, et radiis ingentibus omnia lustrat.
THE pitchy darkness of the night
Is not immediate changed to Light:-
'Ere morning shews his ruddy face,
First breaks the dawn with gentle pace;
And then, the Sun, the World's bright eye,
Rises and gradual mounts the sky;
Until at last his fullest ray,
Floods sea and earth with brightest day.
THIS little rift and chap workes all my woe,
Whilst thorow it fierce Boreas doth blow;
A crevice is a city gate to death,
Who still in ambush seekes to stop our breath:
A little chinke doth drowne the loaded barke,
A stately house is burned with a sparke:
And one disease doth this our health annoy,
One wound our life is able to destroy:
One sinne can Soule and Body overthrow
Into the hell, and darknesse that's below.
Doe not a danger which is meane despise,
From meanest causes greatest evils arise.
FARLIE'S Emblems.
LOVE TAKES POSSESION OF THE MIND INSENSIBLY
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