The Moral Force.

"A youth, impelled by a burning thirst for knowledge     To roam to Sais, in fair Egypt's land,     The priesthood's secret learning to explore,"

"Nature in charms is exhaustless, in beauty ever reviving;     And, like Nature, fair art is inexhaustible too.     Hail, thou honored old man! f"

"Naught is for man so important as rightly to know his own purpose;     For but twelve groschen hard cash 'tis to be bought at my shop!"

"APPENDIX.     The following variations appear in the first two verses of Hector's     Farewell, as given in The Robbers, act ii. scene 2."

"Here morning in the ploughman's songs is met     Ere yet one footstep shows in all the sky,     And twilight in the east, a doubt as yet,     S"

"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"