POVERTY AND BLINDNESS.

A blind man is a poor man, and blind a poor man is;

For the former seeth no man, and the latter

no man sees.

LAW OF LIFE.

Live I, so live I,

To my Lord heartily,

To my Prince faithfully,
To my Neighbour honestly.

Die I, so die I.

CREEDS.

Lutheran, Popish, Calvinistic, all these creeds. and doctrines three

Are extant; but still the doubt is, where Christianity may be.

THE RESTLESS HEART,

A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round;

If they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground.

CHRISTIAN LOVE.

Whilom Love was like a fire, and warmth and comfort it bespoke;

But, alas! it now is quenched, and only bites us, like the smoke.

ART AND TACT.

Intelligence and courtesy not always are com

bined;

Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.

RETRIBUTION.

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;

Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all.

TRUTH.

When by night the frogs are croaking, kindle but a torch's fire,

Ha! how soon they all are silent! Thus Truth silences the liar,

RHYMES.

If perhaps these rhymes of mine sound not well in strangers' ears,

They have only to bethink them that it happens so with theirs ;

For so long as words, like mortals, call a fatherland their own,

They will be most highly valued where they are best and longest known.