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 is love,

Made ten thousand Cupids rise, But confin'd them to her eyes, Where they yet, to showe they lacke No due sorrowe, still weare blacke; But the blackes, so glorious are, Which they mourne in, that the faire Quires of starres turne pale and fret, Seeing themselves outshin'd by jet.

Habington.

I Can both see and feel how hereditary distinction, when it falls to the lot of a generous mind, may elevate that mind into true nobility. It is one of the effects of hereditary rank, when it falls thus happily, that it multiplies the duties, and as it were extends the existence of the possessor. He does not feel himself a mere individual link in creation, responsible only for his own brief term of being: he carries back his existence in proud recollection, and he extends it forward in honourable anticipation : he lives with his ancestry, and he lives with his posterity : to both does he consider himself involved in deep responsibilities: as he has received much from those that went before him, so he feels bound to transmit much to those who are to come after him.

Washington Irving.

There is an hour of peaceful rest,

To weary wanderers given, There is a tear for souls distrest A balm, for every wounded breast, Tis found above in Heaven!