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ORCHID
OWL

ORCHID

Orchis

1

In the marsh pink orchid's faces,
With their coy and dainty graces,
Lure us to their hiding places—
Laugh, O murmuring Spring!

Sarah F. DavisSummer Song.


2

Around the pillars of the palm-tree bower
The orchids cling, in rose and purple spheres;
Shield-broad the lily floats; the aloe flower
Foredates its hundred years.

Bayard TaylorCanopus.


ORDER

3

Let all things be done decently and in order.

I Corinthians. XIV. 40.


4

For the world was built in order
And the atoms march in tune;
Rhyme the pipe, and Time the warder,
The sun obeys them, and the moon.

EmersonMonadnock. St. 12.


5

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule
of right and the eternal fitness of things?

 Henry Fielding—Tom Jones. Bk. IV. Ch. IV. Samuel Clarke—Being and Attributes of God. John Leland—Review of Morgan's Moral Philosopher. I. 154. (Ed. 1807) Also his Inquiry into Lord Bolingbroke's Writings. Letter XXII. I. 451.


6

Set thine house in order.

Isaiah. XXXVIII. 1.


7

To make the plough go before the horse.

James ILetter to the Lord Keeper. July, 1617.
(See also Rabelais)


8

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar
Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined;
Till at his second bidding darkness fled,
Light shone, and order from disorder sprung.

MiltonParadise Lost. Bk. III. L. 710.


9

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess,
Some are and must be greater than the rest.

PopeEssay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 49.
(See also Tusser)


10

Not chaos-like together crush'd and bruis'd,
But, as the world, harmoniously confused:
Where order in variety we see,
And where tho' all things differ, all agree.

PopeWindsor Forest. L. 13.


11

Folie est mettre la charrue devant les boeufs.
It is folly to put the plough in front of the oxen.

RabelaisGargantua. Ch. XI.
(See also James I)


12

Not a mouse
Shall disturb this hallow'd house:
I am sent with broom before,
To sweep the dust behind the door.

Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 394.


13

The heavens themselves, the planets and this
centre
Observe degree, priority and place,
Insisture, course, proportion, season, form,
Office and custom, in all line of order.

Troilus and Cressida. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 85.


14

As order is heavenly, where quiet is had,
So error is hell, or a mischief as bad.

TusserPoints of Husmfery, Huswifery Admonitions. XII. P. 251. (1561)
(See also Pope)


OWL

15

The large white owl that with eye is blind,
That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow.
Is carried away in a gust of wind.

E. B. BrowningIsobel's Child. St. 19.


16

The Roman senate, when within
The city walls an owl was seen,
Did cause their clergy, with lustrations

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The round-fac'd prodigy t' avert,
From doing town or country hurt.

ButlerHudibras. Pt. II. Canto III. L. 709.


17

In the hollow tree, in the old gray tower,
The spectral Owl doth dwell;
Dull, hated, despised, in the sunshine hour,
But at dusk—he's abroad and well!
Not a bird of the forest e'er mates with him—
All mock him outright, by day:
But at night, when the woods grow still and dim,
The boldest will shrink away!
O, when the night falls, and roosts the fowl,
Then, then, is the reign of the Horned Owl!

Barry CornwallThe Owl.


18

St. Agnes' Eve—Ah, bitter chill it was!
The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold.
Keats—The Eve of St. Agnes.
 The wailing owl
Screams solitary to the mournful moon.

MallettExcursion.


20

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry,
Portends strange things, old women say;
Stops every fool that passes by,
And frights the school-boy from his play.

Lady MontaguThe Politicians. St. 4.


Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-whit;
Tu-who, a merry note.

Love's Labour's Lost. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 928.


It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern'st good night.

Macbeth. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 3.


The clamorous owl, that nightly hoots and
wonders
At our quaint spirits.

Midsummer Night's Dream. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 6.

 O you virtuous owle,
The wise Minerva's only fowle.

Sir Philip SidneyA Remedy for Love. L. 77.