528 MORALITY MORNING
The crimson Moon, uprising from the sea,
With large delight, foretells the harvest near.
Meet me by moonlight alone,
And then I will tell you a tale
Must be told by the moonlight alone,
In the grove at the end of the vale!^
You must promise to come, for I said'
I would show the night-flowers their queen.
Nay, turn not away that sweet head,
'T is the loveliest ever was seen.
And suddenly the moon withdraws
Her sickle from the lightening skies,
And to her sombre cavern flies,
Wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
MORALITY
Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to
the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.
No mere man since the Fall, is able in this life
perfectly to keep the Commandments.
Rough Johnson, the great moralist.
"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."
Lewis Carroll—Alice in Wonderland. Ch. VIII.
The Bearings of this observation lays in the application on it.
The moral system of the universe is like a
document written in alternate ciphers, which
change from line to line.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects.
Calvinism.
Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther
than intellect, and provides unconsciously for
intellectual difficulties.
Froude—Short Studies on Great Subjects. Divus Coisar.
Dr. Johnson's morality was as English an
article as a beefsteak.
Hawthorne—Our Old Home. Lichfield and
Uttoxeter.
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jiu-jitsu.
Gerald Stanley Lee—Crowds. Bk. IV.
Ch.X.
Morality without religion is only a kind of
dead reckoning,—an endeavor to find our place
on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we
have run, but without any observation of the
heavenly bodies.
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We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the
British public in one of its periodical fits of
morality.
Macaulay—On Moore's Life of Lord Byron.
(1830)
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| text = <poem>I find the doctors and the sages
Have differ'd in all climes and ages,
And two in fifty scarce agree
On what is pure morality.
Moore—Morality.
MORNING
Sacrament of morning.
E. B. Browning—Sabbath at Sea.
Last Line.
St. 6.
The summer morn is bright and fresh, the birds
are darting by
As if they loved to breast the breeze that sweeps
the cool clear sky.
Bryant—Strange Lady.
The morn is up again, the dewy morn,
With breath all incense, and with cheek all bloom,
Laughing the clouds away with playful scorn,
And living as if earth contained no tomb,—
And glowing into day.
Byron—CAiHe Harold. Canto m. St. 98.
Slow buds the pink dawn like a rose
From out night's gray and cloudy sheath;
Softly and still it grows and grows,
Petal by petal, leaf by leaf.
Susan Cooltdge—The Morning Comes Before
the Sun.
Awake tbee, my Lady-Love!
Wake thee, and rise!
The sun through the bower peeps
Into thine eyes.
George Darley—Sylma; or, The May Queen.
Act IV. Sc. 1.
I saw myself the lambent easy fight
Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.
Dryden—Hind and Panther. Pt.H. L. 1,230.
The breezy call of incense-breathing morn.
Gray—Elegy in a Country ChurcJiyard. St. 5.
Now from the smooth deep ocean-stream the sun
Began to climb the heavens, and with new rays
Smote the surrounding fields.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. VII. L. 525.
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In saffron-colored mantle from the tides
Of Ocean rose the Morning to bright light
To gods and men.
Homer—Iliad. Bk. XLX. L. 1.
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