Xerxes did die, And so must I.

2125 _From the New England Primer._

==Y.==

=Years.=

Jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hourglass.

2126 SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act i., Chorus.

Years following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away.

2127 POPE: Satire vi., Line 72.

I sigh not over vanished years, But watch the years that hasten by.

Look, how they come,--a mingled crowd Of bright and dark, but rapid days.

2128 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Lapse of Time._

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain.

2129 DRYDEN: _Aurengzebe,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Yesterday.=

Oh, call back yesterday, bid time return!

2130 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Yew-Tree.=

Old yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones.

2131 TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ Pt. ii., St. 1.

=Youth.=

For youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, Importing health and graveness.

2132 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iv., Sc. 7.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.

2133 SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, Like marigolds, toward the sunny side.

2134 JEAN INGELOW: _Four Bridges,_ St. 56.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams!

2135 LONGFELLOW: _Morituri Salutamus._

In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm.

2136 GRAY: _Bard,_ Pt. ii., St. 2, Line 9.

==Z.==

=Zeal.=

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.

2137 SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

His zeal None seconded, as out of season judg'd, Or singular and rash.

2138 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. v., Line 849.

INDEX TO AUTHORS.

The references which follow the Chronological Data are the _numbers_ of the Quotations in consecutive order from the respective Authors under which they are placed.

Addison, Joseph.

b. Milston, Wiltshire, Eng., 1672; d. London, Eng., 1719.

--50, 393, 556, 629, 700, 713, 749, 766, 925, 969, 1078, 1583, 1814, 2091.

Akenside, Mark.

b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1721; d. London, Eng., 1770.

--1865, 1938.

Aldrich, James.

b. New York, 1810; d 1856.

--1481.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey.

b. Portsmouth, N.H., 1836; d. 1907.

--238, 407, 771, 2009.

Allen, Elizabeth Akers.

b. Strong, Me., 1832; ....

--313.

Armstrong, John.

b. Liddesdale, Eng, 1709; d. London, Eng., 1779.

--1864.