=Pan.=

And they heard the words it said,-- "Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!

Pan, Pan is dead!"

1296 MRS. BROWNING: _The Dead Pan._

=Pang.=

And even the pang preceding death Bids expectation rise.

1297 GOLDSMITH: _The Captivity,_ Act ii.

=Paradise.=

'T is sweet, as year by year we lose Friends out of sight, in faith to muse How grows in Paradise our store.

1298 KEBLE: _Burial of the Dead._

=Pardon.=

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.

1299 DRYDEN: _Conquest of Granada,_ Pt. ii., Act i., Sc. 2.

=Parents.=

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.

1300 DEFOE: _True-Born Englishman,_ Pt. i., Line 1.

=Parting.=

What! gone without a word?

Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak; For truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it.

1301 SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.

1302 LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. I., i.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.

1303 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 10.

=Passion.=

Fountain heads and pathless groves, Places which pale passion loves.

1304 JOHN FLETCHER: _The Nice Valour,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

1305 SIR WALTER RALEIGH: _Silent Lover._

=Past, The.=

Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint: Each lost day has its patron saint.

1306 BRET HARTE: _The Lost Galleon,_ Last St.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll!

Leave thy low-vaulted past!

1307 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Chambered Nautilus._

=Patience.=

How poor are they, that have not patience!

What wound did ever heal, but by degrees?

1308 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubim.

1309 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

Patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer, And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict.

1310 MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 1287.

Patience is a plant That grows not in all gardens.

1311 LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. ii., 4.

There are times when patience proves at fault.

1312 ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 3.

=Patriotism.=

Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires; God, and your native land!

1313 FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: _Marco Bozzaris._

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore!

1314 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Voyage of the Good Ship Union._

My country, 't is of thee, Sweet land of liberty,-- Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain side Let freedom ring.

1315 SAMUEL F. SMITH: _National Hymn._

Sail on, O Ship of State!

Sail on, O Union, strong and great!

Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate!

1316 LONGFELLOW: _Building of the Ship._

=Peace.=