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Its quenchless flashings forth, which ever show
And ever hide him, and which are not he.

William Watson—Wordsworth's Grave. I. St. 6.

1

God is, and all is well.

Whittier—My Birthday.

(See also Browning)

2

I know not where His islands lift
Their fronded palms in air;
I only know I cannot drift
Beyond His love and care.

Whittier—The Eternal Goodness. St. 20.

3

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

Young—Night Thoughts. Night IV. L. 234.

4

By night an atheist half believes a God.

Young—Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 177.

5

A Deity believed, is joy begun;
A Deity adored, is joy advanced;
A Deity beloved, is joy matured.
Each branch of piety delight inspires.

Young—Night Thoughts. Night VII. L. 720.

6

A God alone can comprehend a God.

Young—Night Thoughts. Night IX. L. 835.

7

Thou, my all!
My theme! my inspiration! and my crown!
My strength in age—my rise in low estate!
My soul's ambition, pleasure, wealth!—my world!
My light in darkness! and my life in death!
My boast through time! bliss through eternity!
Eternity, too short to speak thy praise!
Or fathom thy profound of love to man!

Young—Night Thoughts. Night IV. L. 586.

8

Though man sits still, and takes his ease,
God is at work on man;
No means, no moment unemploy'd,
To bless him, if he can.

Young—Resignation. Pt. I. St. 119.

GODS (THE)

9

Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

Acts. XIX. 28.

10

The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips,
Bronze cheeks, and woolly hair;
The Grecian gods are like the Greeks,
As keen-eyed, cold and fair.

Walter Bagehot—Literary Studies. II. 410. Ignorance of Man.

11

Speak of the gods as they are.

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12

And that dismal cry rose slowly
And sank slowly through the air,
Full of spirit's melancholy
And eternity's despair!
And they heard the words it said—
Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!
Pan, Pan is dead!

E. B. Browning—The Dead Pan.

13

The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more;
A fourth is come with perfume sprinkled o'er.
'Tis Berenice blest and fair; were she
Away the Graces would no Graces be.

Callimachus—Epigram. V. Goldwin Smith's rendering.

14

Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;
The Muses are ten, and the Graces are four;
Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face,
She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.

Callimachus—Epigram. V. Swift's rendering. See Meleager of Gadara, in Anthologia Græca. IX. 16. Vol. II. P. 62. (Ed. 1672)

(See also Greek Anthology)

15

Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore,
Justificam nobis mentem avertere deorum.

The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.

Catullus—Carmina. LXIV. 406.

16

O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus?
Ye immortal gods! where in the world are we?

Cicero—In Catilinam. I. 4.

17

Never, believe me,
Appear the Immortals,
Never alone.

Coleridge—The Visits of the Gods. Imitated from Schiller.

18

Nature's self's thy Ganymede.

Cowley—Anacreontics. The Grasshopper. L. 8.

19

With ravish'd ears
The monarch hears,
Assumes the god,
Affects to nod,
And seems to shake the spheres.

Dryden—Alexander's Feast. L. 37.

20

Creator Venus, genial power of love,
The bliss of men below, and gods above!
Beneath the sliding sun thou runn'st thy race,
Dost fairest shine, and best become thy place;
For thee the winds their eastern blasts forbear,
Thy mouth reveals the spring, and opens all the year;
Thee, goddess, thee, the storms of winter fly,
Earth smiles with flowers renewing, laughs the sky.

Dryden—Palamon and Arcite. Bk. III. L. 1405.

21

Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,—
Can your lurking thought surprise,
And interpret your device,

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All things wait for and divine him,—
How shall I dare to malign him?

Emerson—Initial Dæmonic and Celestial Love. Pt. I.

22

Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee,
Phidias, or thou to heaven hast gone the god to see.

 In Greek Anthology.