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# Lion Bonding Surety Company v. Karatz

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United States Supreme Court
262 U.S. 77
Lion Bonding Surety Company v. Karatz
Argued: March 2, 1923. --- Decided: April 23, 1923
[Syllabus from pages 77-78 intentionally omitted]
Messrs. Halleck F. Rose and Arthur R. Wells, both of Omaha, Neb., for petitioner.
Mr. Bruce W. Sanborn, of St. Paul, Minn., for respondents.
Mr. Justice BRANDEIS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Lipke v. Lederer

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United States Supreme Court
259 U.S. 557
Lipke v. Lederer
Argued: March 21, 22, 1922. --- Decided: June 5, 1922
Mr. Lincoln L. Eyre, of Philadelphia, Pa., for appellant.
Mrs. Assistant Attorney General Willebrandt, for appellee.
Mr. Justice McREYNOLDS delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# List of Carthusians, 1800–1879/1836

​ LIDDELL.
ROUNDELL.
PALMER.
DU CANE.
BOOTHBY.
WILLIAMS.
ROBINSON.
JACOBS.
BODE.
SHEPPARD.
FURZE.
GREATOREX.
KING.
JESSOP.
ELWYN.
GRAYDON.
PEEL.
PEEL.
VALENTINE.
PHILLIMORE.
CURTIS.
CURTIS.
JOYNES.
DAVEY.
TURNER.
GRAYDON.
GIFFARD.
RALPH.
HULL.
HULL.
POWER.
# List of Carthusians, 1800–1879/1839

​ FANE.
SOTHEBY.
BELLI.
FISHER.
ARCHER.
BRODERICK.
BLACKER.
SILVER.
TASKER.
SPRANGER.
JOYNES.
WIGG.
SMITH.
GRIFFITH.
VERNON.
BOWEN.
WHATELY.
SAUNDERS.
SAUNDERS.
INNES.
GIBBS.
CORNEWALL.
WALMESLEY.
CHEVALLIER.
RIDSDALE.
MILLS.
# List of Carthusians, 1800–1879/1842

​ COOPER.
WILLIAMS.
JOHNSTON.
SUTHERLAND.
SAUNDERS.
SAUNDERS.
ESPINASSE.
WYLDE.
LOCKER.
BELSON.
CLOWES.
LE BAS.
MILES.
SKEY.
SKEY.
LLOYD.
IRVINE.
CUPPAGE.
SPILLER.
BATTEN.
HANNAM.
WRANGHAM.
DYNELEY.
DOUGLAS.
JAMES.
DICKEN.
GREEN.
SAUNDERS.
POWER.
COOPER.
DOBINSON.
JENOUR.
DYNELEY.
NAPIER.
DES VOEUX.
ROWE.
COLES.
COLLIER.
COYLE.
MILES.
MILES.
PEARSON.
BATTEN.
# List of Carthusians, 1800–1879/1835

​ BENCE.
DAVIES.
DAVIES.
CLIFFORD.
FANE.
BRIGGS.
DOLLMAN.
KNOX.
BOX.
BOX.
BOX.
RUSSELL.
HENNIKER.
ELLIS.
HALE.
PENNELL.
GLEIG.
PURVIS.
HUMPHREYS.
PARKER.
MEADE.
BENCE.
SHAKESPEAR.
COLDWELL.
DARLING.
# List of Carthusians, 1800–1879/1834

​ ASHHURST.
ALSTON.
EDEN.
TALBOT.
PARIS.
ELWYN.
WALFORD.
HAWKINS.
MCCULLUM.
BLOMFIELD.
WRIGHT.
JACOBS.
MOORE.
PAGET.
SURTEES.
LAW.
BURROWS.
WICHE.
PRITCHETT.
PROCTER.
BABINGTON.
ANDREWS.
MANDERSON.
# List of Carthusians, 1800–1879/1840

​ BLOMFIELD.
LEGH.
LOCKETT.
FOOTE.
KEIGHTLEY.
WHISH.
WETHERALL.
KEIGHTLEY.
COFFIN.
HORROCKS.
GREY.
BERKELEY.
BOSWORTH.
DRAKE.
GAHAGAN.
DELHOSTE.
HOBART.
WIGG.
PALMER.
WILLIAMS.
LOCKWOOD.
SARGEAUNT.
SARGEAUNT.
TURNER.
IRVING.
DEWAR.
# List of Carthusians, 1800–1879/1841

​ FISHER.
RODWELL.
COLLINS.
PATERSON.
FAIRLIE.
DEANE.
RICHARDSON.
SHETTON.
BURTON.
FOX.
RYDER.
FORT.
MILLARD.
KEY.
URLING.
POCOCK.
COOPER.
FLOYD.
HAMMOND.
SOMERSET.
PEARSON.
PEARSON.
BLAND.
TROTTER.
PALGRAVE.
DRAKE.
SMITH.
SMITH.
DOUGLAS.
PARROTT.
PARROTT.
ROBINSON.
HAGGARD.
HALE.
HALE.
TUCKER.
MACKENZIE.
BYRON.
LOWDER.
STOPFORD.
# List of Carthusians, 1800–1879/1843

​ BOYLE.
BARNARD.
RICHARDSON.
BELSON.
STOPFORD.
CLARKE.
BEDDOME.
DASHWOOD.
LECHE.
CUNYNGHAME.
GARDNER.
FONBLANQUE.
COLERIDGE.
PALMER.
BRISCOE.
SAUNDERS.
MILLS.
TWEED.
BATTISCOMBE.
GRIFFINHOOFE.
HALL.
BARNARD.
YOUNG.
YOUNG.
BARNES.
HANSON.
ROBINSON.
HOPE-VERE.
SOMERSET.
ROPER.
COOPER.
LEGH.
BLOMFIELD.
GIPPS.
HILLS.
LUARD.
WALLACE.
JONES.
JONES.
COBBOLD.
PARNELL.
GILBERT.
STONE.
HATHAWAY.
GRAY.
CAZENOVE.
WOOD.
# List of Carthusians, 1800–1879/1837

​ GREEN.
PALMER.
SAUNDERS.
SAUNDERS.
WRIGHT.
WRIGHT.
WEEKES.
NEATE.
BARTTELOT.
BAGOT.
MILES.
HAYTER.
HUNT.
HENNIKER.
WODEHOUSE.
SARGEAUNT.
SHARPE.
PATERSON.
FISHER.
LECHMERE.
POUNSETT.
FORMBY.
RODWELL.
BURGESS.
TANNER.
STORY.
BRASSEY.
RYDER.
CLUTTERBUCK.
LAFONT.
RODWELL.
WEGUELIN.
WHISH.
CHILD.
CHILD.
CHILD.
CHILD.
FORSHALL.
BARRINGTON.
PERRY.
# List of Carthusians, 1800–1879/1838

​ GIBBS.
CARTER.
COOKE.
LUCAS.
LUCAS.
TURNER.
BANNISTER.
BROUGHTON.
SHARPLES.
BOOTHBY.
BOOTHBY.
BLAND.
BODE.
ELLIS.
TAYLOR.
TURNER.
NEATE.
WARBURTON.
HILTON.
BATHURST.
GIBBS.
WINSCOM.
TURNER.
COBBOLD.
BOOTHBY.
JACOBS.
HULL.
HULL.
GRIFFINHOOFE.
ELLIS.
FISHER.
HOSKINS.
PALGRAVE.
PALGRAVE.
PALGRAVE.
GATTY.
# Life on the Mississippi/Chapter 21

IN due course I got my license. I was a pilot now, full fledged. I dropped into casual employments; no misfortunes resulting, intermittent work gave place to steady and protracted engagements. Time drifted smoothly and prosperously on, and I supposed--and hoped--that I was going to follow the river the rest of my days, and die at the wheel when my mission was ended. But by and by the war came, commerce was suspended, my occupation was gone.
I had to seek another livelihood. So I became a silver miner in Nevada; next, a newspaper reporter; next, a gold miner, in California; next, a reporter in San Francisco; next, a special correspondent in the Sandwich Islands; next, a roving correspondent in Europe and the East; next, an instructional torch-bearer on the lecture platform; and, finally, I became a scribbler of books, and an immovable fixture among the other rocks of New England.
In so few words have I disposed of the twenty-one slow-drifting years that have come and gone since I last looked from the windows of a pilot-house.
Let us resume, now.
# Leary v. United States (253 U.S. 94)

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United States Supreme Court
253 U.S. 94
Leary v. United States (253 U.S. 94)
Argued: April 30, 1920. --- Decided: May 17, 1920
Mr. Aubrey E. Strode, of Amherst, Va., for appellants.
Mr. Marion Erwin, of New York City, for the United States.
Mr. Justice HOLMES delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Leary v. United States

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* Leary v. United States (81 U.S. 607)
* Leary v. United States (224 U.S. 567)
* Leary v. United States (253 U.S. 94)
* Leary v. United States (395 U.S. 6)
See also United States v. Leary.
# Leary v. United States (395 U.S. 6)

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U.S. Supreme Court case dealing with the constitutionality of Marijuana Tax Act. Timothy Leary, a professor and activist, was arrested for the possession of marijuana in violation of the Marijuana Tax Act. Leary challenged the act on the ground that the act required self-incrimination, which violated the Fifth Amendment. The unanimous opinion of the court was penned by Justice John Marshall Harlan II and declared the Marijuana Tax Act unconstitutional. Thus, Leary's conviction was overturned. However, Congress responded shortly after by passing the Controlled Substances Act to continue the prohibition of certain drugs in the United States

## Concurring Opinions

    Stewart
    Black
United States Supreme Court
395 U.S. 6
Timothy F. LEARY, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES.
Argued: Dec. 11 and 12, 1968. --- Decided: May 19, 1969
[Syllabus from pages 6-9 intentionally omitted]
Robert J. Haft, New York City, for petitioner.
John S. Martin, Jr., Washington, D.C., for respondent.
Mr. Justice HARLAN delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Leary v. Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City

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United States Supreme Court
248 U.S. 328
Leary v. Mayor and Aldermen of Jersey City
Argued: Nov. 12 and 13, 1918. --- Decided: Jan 7, 1919
Messrs. Merritt Lane, of Newark, N. J., and John M. Enright, of Jersey City, N. J., for appellant.
Mr. John Bentley, of Jersey City, N. J. (Messrs. John Milton and Edward P. Stout, both of Jersey City, N. J., of counsel), for appellees.
Mr. Justice PITNEY delivered the opinion of the Court.

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# Leary v. United States (224 U.S. 567)

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United States Supreme Court
224 U.S. 567
Leary v. United States (224 U.S. 567)
Argued: April 29 and 30, 1912. --- Decided: May 13, 1912
Messrs. J. T. Coleman, David McClure, and A. E. Strode for appellant.
[Argument of Counsel from page 568 intentionally omitted]
Solicitor General Lehmann and Mr. Marion Erwin, Special Assistant to the Attorney General, for appellee.
[Argument of Counsel from pages 569-573 intentionally omitted]
Mr. Justice Holmes delivered the opinion of the court:

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# Leary v. United States (395 U.S. 6)/Concurrence Stewart

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* Opinion of the Court
* Concurring Opinions Stewart Black
United States Supreme Court
395 U.S. 6
Timothy F. LEARY, Petitioner, v. UNITED STATES.
Argued: Dec. 11 and 12, 1968. --- Decided: May 19, 1969
Mr. Justice STEWART, concurring.
I join Part II of the Court's opinion. As to Part I, I have before now expressed my conviction that the Fifth Amendment guarantee against compulsory self-incrimination was originally intended to do no more than confer a testimonial privilege in a judicial proceeding. But the Court through the years has drifted far from that mooring; the Marchetti and Grosso cases are simply the most recent in a long line of decisions marking the extent of the drift. Perhaps some day the Court will consider a fundamental re-examination of its decisions in this area, in the light of the original constitutional meaning. Until that day comes, it seems to me that the authoritative weight of precedent permits no escape from the conclusion reached by the Court in this case. I therefore join its opinion and judgment.

## Notes

* ↑ See Grosso v. United States, 390 U.S. 62, 76, 88 S.Ct. 709, 718, 19 L.Ed.2d 906 (concurring opinion); In re Gault, 387 U.S. , 80, n. 3, 87 S.Ct. 1428, 1471, 18 L.Ed.2d 527 (dissenting opinion).
* ↑ Marchetti v. United States, 390 U.S. 39, 88 S.Ct. 697, 19 L.Ed.2d 889; Grosso v. United States, 390 U.S. 62, 88 S.Ct. 709, 19 L.Ed.2d 906.
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# Littell's Living Age/Volume 128/Issue 1651/God's Lilies

MORNING MUSINGS.
* II. — GOD'S LILIES
* God’s lilies droop about the world,
* In sweetness everywhere;
* They are the maiden-souls who learn
* To comfort, and to bear
* And to smile upon the heavy cross
* That every one must wear.
* O lilies, beautiful and meek!
* They know God’s will is right,
* And so they raise their patient heads
* In dark and stormy night,
* And far above the eastern hills
* They see the dawn of light.
* They know that when their day is done,
* And deep the shadow lies,
* The cross will weary them no more;
* So lightly they arise
* To meet the angels when they call
* "Lilies of Paradise!"
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 128/Issue 1651/My Heart

MORNING MUSINGS.
* I. — MY HEART
* My heart is like a fairy land,
* With flowers and garlands gay;
* My heart is like a meadow plain,
* Whereon a child may play.
* My heart is like a silver brook
* That lightly babbles by;
* And sometimes like a dreamy lake
* Beneath a heavy sky.
* And sometimes like a stormy sea,
* With waves that rise at will,
* Till o’er the water breathes a voice,
* And then the waves are still.
* My heart is like a roomy house,
* With widely opened door —
* One day the gates will shut, and then
* Comes peace forevermore.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 128/Issue 1651/Patience

MORNING MUSINGS.
* III. — PATIENCE
* "Tout vient à qui sait attendre."
* Only be patient, all will come
* To one who knoweth how to wait;
* The wished-for, love-desired home —
* Ah yes, it cometh soon or late.
* Ah yes, it cometh; see the star
* Of hope in darkest clouds arise:
* Ah yes, it cometh; see from far
* The dawning red in eastern skies.
* O my beloved, we shall see,
* When all the weary years are o’er,
* How very sweet the days will be,
* For you and me, forevermore.
* A. C. C.
* Sunday Magazine.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 128/Issue 1651/The Cynic's Carol

* THE CYNIC'S CAROL
* Christmas comes but once a year;
* Happy that twice it cometh not:
* For sirloin is uncommon dear,
* And dear the pudding in the pot;
* And floods are out, and rooms are chill,
* And every morning brings a bill.
* That plant yclept the mistletoe
* To me by no means pleasant is:
* My daughters underneath it go
* To meet a detrimental kiss,
* From one who nothing hath a year,
* And liveth in a street called Queer.
* My parson preacheth straight at me,
* My wine-merchant sends claret sour,
* My stocks are down to thirty-three,
* My stockbroker won’t wait an hour;
* My boys, escaped scholastic swish,
* Take from the larder what they wish.
* Well, life has consolations still:
* Locked in my study, far away
* From riots that my household fill,
* I pass a calm, if cheerless day —
* Thankful, as bed-time draweth near,
* That Christmas comes but once a year.
* Punch
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 128/Issue 1651/Come Near to Me

* COME NEAR TO ME.
* The way is long! Come near to me;
* I cannot live afar from Thee,
* Nor journey to my home above,
* Unless Thou aid me with Thy love.
* So many errors clog my soul —
* So many evils round me roll:
* I faint with all the weary strife —
* Come near me, Lord, for Thou art life.
* The thorns seem thicker than the bloom,
* Edging the pathway to the tomb:
* They pierce — and whither shall I flee,
* Except, dear Lord, I flee to Thee?
* Come near at morning, noon, and night;
* Be Thy sweet presence my delight;
* Thy gracious comfort freely give,
* That I may look to Thee and live.
* And, oh at last when I shall feel
* The damps of death upon me steal,
* Disclose to my dim, fading eyes,
* The opening gate of Paradise.
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 128/Issue 1651/How to Breathe Properly

From Public Health.
HOW TO BREATHE PROPERLY.
Most people breathe properly, often more by accident or instinct than by design; but, on the other hand, hundreds of thousands do not breathe properly, while many thousands at this present moment are suffering from more or less severe affections of the lungs or throat, owing to a faulty mode of respiration — in other words, because they breathe through the mouth instead of through the nostrils. The mouth has its own functions to perform in connection with eating, drinking, and speaking; and the nostrils have theirs, viz., smelling and breathing. In summertime the error of respiring through the mouth is not so evident as at the present season, when it is undoubtedly fraught with danger to the person who commits this mistake. If any one breathes through the natural channel, the nostrils, the air passing over the mucous membrane lining the various chambers of the nose becomes warmed to the temperature of the body before reaching the lungs; but if he takes in air between the lips and through the mouth, the cold air comes in contact with the delicate lining membrane of the throat and lungs, and gives rise to a local chill, frequently ending in inflammation. Many persons, without knowing the reason why they are benefited, wear respirators over their mouth in winter, if they happen to go out of doors. By doing this they diminish the amount of air which enters between the lips, and virtually compel themselves to breathe through the nostrils. But they could attain just the same result by keeping the lips closed, a habit which is easily acquired, and conduces to the proper and natural way of breathing. We believe that if people would only adopt this simple habit — in other words, if they would take for their rule in breathing, "Shut your mouth!" there would be an immense diminution in the two classes of affections, viz., those of the lungs and throat, which count many thousands of victims in this country in the course of a single year. Man is the only animal which has acquired the pernicious and often fatal habit of breathing through the mouth. It commences in childhood, and becomes confirmed in adult life, often engendering consumption, chronic bronchitis, relaxed sore throat, or some other disease of the lungs or throat which is set down, usually, to a different cause altogether. In concluding this short article, we venture to ask our readers to judge for themselves. When they step out in the morning into the fresh, but cold, air, let them try the difference of feeling arising from the two modes of breathing — through the nostrils, and between the lips. In the former case they will find that they can breathe easily and freely, yet with comfort, while the fresh air, warmed to the temperature of the body by its contact with the nasal mucous membrane, is agreeable to the lungs; in the other case, if they draw in a few inspirations between the parted lips, the cold air, rushing in direct to the lungs, creates a feeling of coldness and discomfort, and an attack of coughing often comes on.
# Leaves of Grass (1882)/Whispers of Heavenly Death

* Darest Thou Now O Soul
* Whispers of Heavenly Death
* Chanting the Square Deific
* Of Him I Love Day and Night
* Yet, Yet, Ye Downcast Hours
* As if a Phantom Caress'd Me
* Assurances
* Quicksand Years
* That Music Always Round Me
* What Ship Puzzled at Sea
* A Noiseless Patient Spider
* O Living Always, Always Dying
* To One Shortly to Die
* Night on the Prairies
* Thought
* The Last Invocation
* As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing
* Pensive and Faltering
# Leaves of Grass (1882)/Songs of Parting/Years of the Modern

YEARS OF THE MODERN.
Years of the modern! years of the unperformed! Your horizon rises, I see it parting away for more august dramas, I see not America only, not only Liberty's nation but other nations preparing, I see tremendous entrances and exits, new combinations, the solidarity of races, I see that force advancing with irresistible power on the world's stage, (Have the old forces, the old wars, played their parts? are the acts suitable to them closed?) I see Freedom, completely arm'd and victorious and very haughty, with Law on one side and Peace on the other, A stupendous trio all issuing forth against the idea of caste; What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach? I see men marching and countermarching by swift millions, I see the frontiers and boundaries of the old aristocracies broken, I see the landmarks of European kings removed, I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day, Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God, ​Lo, how he urges and urges, leaving the masses no rest! His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere, he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes, With the steamship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the wholesale engines of war, With these and the world-spreading factories he interlinks all geography, all lands; What whispers are these O lands, running ahead of you, passing under the seas? Are all nations communing? is there going to be but one heart to the globe? Is humanity forming en-masse? for lo, tyrants tremble, crowns grow dim, The earth, restive, confronts a new era, perhaps a general divine war, No one knows what will happen next, such portents fill the days and nights; Years prophetical! the space ahead as I walk, as I vainly try to pierce it, is full of phantoms, Unborn deeds, things soon to be, project their shapes around me, This incredible rush and heat, this strange ecstatic fever of dreams O years! Your dreams O years, how they penetrate through me! (I know not whether I sleep or wake;) The perform'd America and Europe grow dim, retiring in shadow behind me, The unperformed, more gigantic than ever, advance, advance upon me.
# Leaves of Grass (1882)/Transpositions

TRANSPOSITIONS.
Let the reformers descend from the stands where they are forever bawling—let an idiot or insane person appear on each of the stands; Let judges and criminals be transposed—let the prison-keepers be put in prison—let those that were prisoners take the keys; Let them that distrust birth and death lead the rest.
# Leaves of Grass (1882)/Whispers of Heavenly Death/A Noiseless Patient Spider

A NOISELESS PATIENT SPIDER.
A noiseless patient spider, I mark'd where on a little promontory it stood isolated, Mark'd how to explore the vacant vast surrounding, It launch'd forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself, Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand, Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space, Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them, Till the bridge you will need be form'd, till the ductile anchor hold, Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
# Leaves of Grass (1882)/Whispers of Heavenly Death/As if a Phantom Caress'd Me

AS IF A PHANTOM CARESS'D ME.
As if a phantom caress'd me, I thought I was not alone walking here by the shore; But the one I thought was with me as now I walk by the shore, the one I loved that caress'd me, As I lean and look through the glimmering light, that one has utterly disappear'd, And those appear that are hateful to me and mock me.
# Leaves of Grass (1882)/Whispers of Heavenly Death/As I Watch'd the Ploughman Ploughing

AS I WATCH'D THE PLOUGHMAN PLOUGHING.
As I watch'd the ploughman ploughing, Or the sower sowing in the fields, or the harvester harvesting, I saw there too, O life and death, your analogies; (Life, life is the tillage, and Death is the harvest according.)
# Littell's Living Age/Volume 140/Issue 1806/"My soul fast cleaveth to the dust"

* "My soul cleaveth to the dust; quicken thou me, according to thy word."
* My soul fast cleaveth to the dust;
* My heart within is dead and cold;
* I'm blown about by every gust;
* No certain anchorage I hold.
* I fain would lift mine eyes on high,
* But, all unpurged, they cannot see;
* I feel like one about to die, —
* Have mercy, Jesu, quicken me!
* My life is like the untilled land,
* On which no flower or fruitage grows;
* 'Tis like a waste of arid sand,
* A wintry landscape clothed with snows.
* All empty are the vanished years;
* Shall like the past the future be?
* 'Gainst this I plead with prayers and tears,
* Have mercy, Jesu, quicken me!
* My life is like to plants that creep,
* Like plants that droop and touch the ground;
* No seed I sow, no harvest reap,
* All barren as the months go round.
* Uproot me then, and plant again;
* I would be fruitful unto thee;
* Prune, cleanse me, Lord, I'll scorn the pain:
* Have mercy, Jesu, quicken me!
* Sunday Magazine.Canon Bell, D.D..