Friend, make good use of time! 
    Eternity sublime
    Is cradled in its use,
    And Time allows no truce. 
    The past, with shadowy pall,
    Is gone beyond recall;
    To-morrow is not thine;
     ’To-day is all thou hast,
     Which will not always last: 
    Make thou to-day divine!

XXX.

     Every hour a duty
    Brings thee from the courts on high. 
     Every hour a beauty
    Waits her transit to the sky;
    Waits till thou adorn her
      With the glory of thy heart,
    Or until thou scorn her—­
      Shall she with thy sin depart?

XXXI.

    If you seek in life success,
      Own yourself the instrument
    Which the Lord alone can bless,
      And the world as helper meant;
    Perseverance as your friend
      And experience your eyes,
    Onward press to reach your end,
      Resting not with any prize;
    Counting it a joy to lend
      Unto Him who sanctifies.

XXXII.

    That day is lost forever,
      Whose golden sun
    Beholds through thine endeavor
      No goodness done.

XXXIII.

    Count not thy life by heart-throbs;
      He thinks and lives the most
    Who with the noblest actions
      Adorns his chosen post.

XXXIV.

    The secret of the world,
    Although in light impearled,
    No one can e’er discover,
    No one—­except a lover. 
    To him are given new eyes
    In self’s true sacrifice.

XXXV.

    If Love is blind
      And overlooks small things,
    He has a mind
      To apprehend all things.

XXXVI.

    As Love sails down life’s river
    He from his gleaming quiver
      Shoots into every heart
      A strange and nameless smart. 
    How is thy heart protected? 
    The wound is unsuspected!

XXXVII.

    Dost thou truly love? 
    Nothing hard can prove,
    All the stress and rigor
    Doth thy heart transfigure.

XXXVIII.

    Love is the key of joy
    Which keeps the man a boy
    When outward things decay
    And all his locks are gray.

XXXIX.

    Of Heaven below
      Which is so sweet to know,
    And Heaven above,
      The title-deed is love.

XL.