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Sheridan.

To wish and want doth make a pensive heart,

To look and lack doth make a weary eye; To touch and not to take's a foolish part,

To love and not to move is a misery. Then since all hope is gone, all hope adieu, For thoughts, words, deeds, and all are all untrue.

Vain is it for to write upon the shore,

Vain is it on the water for to till; Vain is it stars or sands to number o'er,

Vain is it to command or wind or wil!; And without hope, to hope is also vain, Since good hope never can good hap attain.

FROM THE HARLEIAN MS. 1840.

Lalla Rookh herself could not help feeling the kindness and splendour with which the young bridegroom welcomed her, but she also felt how painful is the gratitude which kindness from those we cannot love creates; and that their best blandishments come over the heart, with all that chilling and deadly sweetness, which we can fancy in the cold, odoriferous wind that is to blow over this earth in the last days.

Moore.

A Good name is the embalming of the virtuous to an eternity of love and gratitude among pos