Order is heav’n’s first law; and this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest, More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence That such are happier, shocks all common sense. 1288 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 49.

=Ornament.=

Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea.
1289
SHAKS.:  M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Owl.=

It was the owl that shriek’d, the fatal bellman, Which gives the stern’st good-night. 1290 SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2.

==P.==

=Pain.=

Pain pays the income of each precious thing. 1291 SHAKS.:  R. of Lucrece, Line 334.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past. 1292 MARGARET J. PRESTON:  Sonnet. Nature’s Lesson.

The sad mechanic exercise
Like dull narcotics numbing pain.
1293
TENNYSON:  In Memoriam, Prologue, v., St. 2.

=Painter.=

With hue like that when some great painter dips His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse. 1294 SHELLEY:  Revolt of Islam, Canto v., St. 23.

=Palm.=

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. 1295 HEBER:  Palestine.

=Pan.=

And they heard the words it said,—­
“Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! 
  Pan, Pan is dead!”
1296
MRS. BROWNING:  The Dead Pan.

=Pang.=

And even the pang preceding death
    Bids expectation rise.
1297
GOLDSMITH:  The Captivity, Act ii.

=Paradise.=

’T is sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store.
1298
KEBLE:  Burial of the Dead.

=Pardon.=

Forgiveness to the injured does belong; But they ne’er pardon who have done the wrong. 1299 DRYDEN:  Conquest of Granada, Pt. ii., Act i., Sc. 2.

=Parents.=

Great families of yesterday we show, And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who. 1300 DEFOE:  True-Born Englishman, Pt. i., Line 1.

=Parting.=

What! gone without a word? 
Ay, so true love should do:  it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it.
1301
SHAKS.:  Two Gent. of V., Act ii., Sc. 2.

They who go
Feel not the pain of parting; it is they
Who stay behind that suffer.
1302
LONGFELLOW:  Michael Angelo, Pt.  I., i.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal. 1303 BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto i., St. 10.

=Passion.=

Fountain heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves.
1304
JOHN FLETCHER:  The Nice Valour, Act iii., Sc. 3.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams:  The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb. 1305 SIR WALTER RALEIGH:  Silent Lover.