Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.

1027 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

When my lips meet thine Thy very soul is wedded unto mine.

1028 H.H. BOYESEN: _Thy Gracious Face I Greet with Glad Surprise._

Her mouth's culled sweetness by thy kisses shed On cheeks and neck and eyelids, and so led Back to her mouth which answers there for all.

1029 DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI: _Love-Sweetness,_ Sonnet xiii.

I rest content, I kiss your eyes, I kiss your hair, in my delight: I kiss my hand, and say, Good night.

1030 JOAQUIN MILLER: _Isles of the Amazons,_ Pt. v.

One kiss--and then another--and another-- Till 't is too late to go--and so return.

1031 CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act ii., Sc. 10.

Dear as remember'd kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others.

1032 TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 36.

=Knavery.=

There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave.

1033 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 5.

Whip me such honest knaves.

1034 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Knell.=

By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung.

1035 WILLIAM COLLINS: _Lines in 1746._

Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell, Or smil'd when a Sabbath appear'd.

1036 COWPER: _Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk._

=Knowledge.=

Knowledge is as food, and needs no less Her temp'rance over appetite, to know In measure what the mind may well contain; Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns Wisdom to folly.

1037 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vii., Line 126.

All our knowledge is, ourselves to know.

1038 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 397.

_I know_--is all the mourner saith, Knowledge by suffering entereth; And Life is perfected by Death!

1039 MRS. BROWNING: _Vision of Poets,_ St. 330.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

1040 TENNYSON: _Locksley Hall,_ Line 141.

But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page, Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll.

1041 GRAY: _Elegy,_ St. 13.

Oh, be wiser thou!

Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.

1042 WORDSWORTH: _Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree._

==L.==

=Labor.=

I have seen a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide, And spend her strength with over-matching waves.

1043 SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act i., Sc. 4.

Labor, you know, is Prayer.

1044 BAYARD TAYLOR: _Improvisations,_ St. 11.

Taste the joy That springs from labor.

1045 LONGFELLOW: _Masque of Pandora,_ Pt. vi.

To fall'n humanity our Father said, That food and bliss should not be found unsought; That man should labor for his daily bread; But not that man should toil and sweat for nought.

1046 EBENEZER ELLIOTT: _Corn Law Hymns._

To labor is the lot of man below; And when Jove gave us life, he gave us woe.

1047 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. x., Line 78.

=Ladies.=

Ladies, like variegated tulips, show 'T is to their changes half their charms we owe.

1048 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 41.

=Lake.=

On thy fair bosom, silver lake, The wild swan spreads his snowy sail, And round his breast the ripples break As down he bears before the gale.

1049 JAMES G. PERCIVAL: _To Seneca Lake._

=Land.=

Breathes there the man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said This is my own, my native land!

1050 SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto vi., St. 1.

O Caledonia! stern and wild, Meet nurse for a poetic child!