JEREMIAH EAMES RANKIN.
LET DOGS DELIGHT TO BARK AND BITE.
"Let Dogs Delight to Bark and Bite," by Isaac Watts (1674-1748), and
"Little Drops of Water," by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1810-97), are poems
that the world cannot outgrow. Once in the mind, they fasten. They were
not born to die.
Let dogs delight to bark and bite,
For God hath made them so;
Let bears and lions growl and fight,
For 'tis their nature too.
But, children, you should never let
Such angry passions rise;
Your little hands were never made
To tear each other's eyes.
ISAAC WATTS.
LITTLE THINGS.
Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.
Thus the little minutes,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity.
EBENEZER COBHAM BREWER.
HE PRAYETH BEST.
These two stanzas, the very heart of that great poem, "The Ancient
Mariner," by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834), sum up the lesson of
this masterpiece--"Insensibility is a crime.
Pages:
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42