SEPTEMBER IST

SEPTEMBER 2D.

I said to the little swallow,
"Who'll follow?

Out of thy nest in the eaves
Under the ivy leaves : "

Yet my thoughts fly swifter than these.

SEPTEMBER IST.

Muloch

I will hasten to weave the beautiful web Whose pattern is known to none but me!

Mrs. Dorr.

And I so happy with youth's mystery.

SEPTEMBER 2D.

Mrs. Stoddard.

Howe'er it be, it seems to me,
"Tis only noble to be good,
Kind hearts are more than coronets,
And simple faith than Norman blood.

Tennyson.

She takes delight in simple things
And in the sunshine works and sings.

Mackay.

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END back these lonesome lights to Fairyland,

Whose wingéd glimmer of gold lured childish

feet,

Borrowed (with flower and bird), you understand,

Before the weird leaf-gathering frost creeps on.

Ah, loveliest time! - wherein we may regret

The fair things going, not the sweet things gone.

follis M. 13. Proll

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CONDUCT MOTTOES FOR SEPTEMBER BIRTHDAYS.

1. Child-simple, undefiled, frank, obedient.— Mrs. Browning.
Be thou in rebuking evil, conscious of thine own.- Whittier.
Prison thy soul from malice, bar out pride.— Channing.

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Honest work for the day, honest hope for the morrow.― Meredith.
So long as you are innocent, fear nothing.- Longfellow.

6. One get surelier onward by walking than leaping.— Lowell.
7. Whose looks have power to make dissensions cease.-Anon.

8. Come here is work-begin! -E. Ellsworth.

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What seems coarse is often good and fine.- Abbey.

A noble deed is a step toward God.-7 G. Holland.
Modest answer and graceful air.- Whittier.

True heart and strong will.- Adelaide Proctor.

13. The least flower may share its dew-drop with another.-E. B. B.

14. Act, act in the living present! - Longfellow.

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Be visible through and through, boys!-H. Downton.

16. True treasure is not lightly won.- Mrs. S. M. B. Piatt.

17. Learn to right the injured cause. -Sir Walter Scott.

18. High heartedness doth sometimes teach to bow.-Lady Carew.

19. To make the best of all things is the best.- Owen Meredith.

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We are too ready with complaint.- Mrs. Browning.
Her hearth is swept clean.-J. R. Lowell.

No endeavor is in vain.- Longfellow.

Sweet promptings unto kind deeds.

"I never dodge."— John Byram.

Whittier.

Our place is kept ready for us to fill it.-A. A. Proctor.

26. Lofty thoughts and lovely deeds! - Owen Meredith.

27. Speak out plainly! be precise with facts and dates.— Mrs. Browning.

28. Both the Sweet and the True.- Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

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We can act to a purpose-we spring up erect.- Mrs. Browning.

30. Happy, and careless and blest,

Full of the song-sparrow's spirit.-Celia Thaxter.