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HAREBELL

Campanula Rolundifolia

1

I love the fair lilies and roses so gay,
They are rich in their pride and their splendor;
But still more do I love to wander away
To the meadow so sweet,
Where down at my feet,
The harebell blooms modest and tender.

Dora Read Goodale—Queen Harebell.

2

With drooping bells of clearest blue
Thou didst attract my childish view,
Almost resembling
The azure butterflies that flew
Where on the heath thy blossoms grew
So lightly trembling.

Bishop Heber—The Harebell.

3

Simplest of blossoms! To mine eye
Thou bring'st the summer's painted sky;
The May-thorn greening in the nook;
The minnows sporting in the brook;
The bleat of flocks; the breath of flowers;
The song of birds amid the bowers;
The crystal of the azure seas;
The music of the southern breeze;
And, over all, the blessed sun,
Telling of halcyon days begun.

Moir—The Harebell.

4

High in the clefts of the rock 'mid the cedars
Hangeth the harebell the waterfall nigh;
Blue are its petals, deep-blue tinged with purple,
Mystical tintings that mirror the sky.

L. D. Pychowska—Harebells.

HARVEST

(See also Agriculture)

5

For now, the corn house filled, the harvest home,
Th' invited neighbors to the husking come;
A frolic scene, where work and mirth and play
Unite their charms to cheer the hours away.

Joel Barlow—The Hasty Pudding.

6

He that observeth the wind shall not sow;
and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.

Ecclesiastes XI. 4.

7

In the morning sow thy seed, and in the evening withhold not thine hand.

Ecclesiastes XI. 6.

8

Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

 VI. 7.

9

The harvest truly is plenteous, but the labourers are few.

Matthew. IX. 37.

10

Who eat their corn while yet 'tis green,
At the true harvest can but glean.

Saadi—Gulistan. (Garden of Roses.)

11

To glean the broken ears after the man
That the main harvest reaps. M

As You like It. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 102.

12

And thus of all my harvest-hope I have
Nought reaped but a weedye crop of care.

Spenser—The Shepherd's Calendar. December. L. 121.

13

 Think, oh, grateful think!
How good the God of Harvest is to you;
Who pours abundance o'er your flowing fields,
While those unhappy partners of your kind
Wide-hover round you, like the fowls of heaven.
And ask their humble dole.

Thomson—Aviumn. L. 169.

14

Fancy with prophetic glance
Sees the teeming months advance;
The field, the forest, green and gay;
The dappled slope, the tedded hay;
Sees the reddening orchard blow,
The Harvest wave, the vintage flow.

Warton—Ode. The First of April. L. 97.

HASTE

15

Festination may prove Precipitation;

Deliberating delay may be wise cunctation.

Sir Thomas Browne—Christian Morals. Pt. I. Sec. XXII. (Paraphrasing Caesar.)

16

Then horn for horn they stretch and strive;
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive.

Burns—To a Haggis.

17

Festina lente.

Hasten deliberately.

Augustus Cesar. Quoting a Greek Proverb, according to Aullus Gellius. X. 11. 5.

(See also Rufus, Romeo and Juliet)

18

The more haste, ever the worst speed.

Churchill—The Ghost. Bk. IV. L. 1,162.

19

I'll be with you in the squeezing of a lemon.

Goldsmith—She Stoops to Conquer. Act I. Sc.2

20

Sat cito, si sat bene.
Quick enough, if good enough.

St. Jerome—Epistle. LXVI. Par. 9. (Valler's ed.) Quoted from Cato. Phrase used by Lord Eldon. In Twiss's Life of Lord C.Eldon. Vol. I. P. 46.

21

Haste is of the Devil.

The Koran.

22

Le trap de promptitude a l'erreur nous expose.
Too great haste leads us to error.

Molière—Sganarelle. I. 12.

23

Stay awhile that we may make an end the sooner.

 Attributed to Sir Amice Pawlet by Bacon. Apothgems No. 76.

24

On wings of winds came flying all abroad.

Pope—Prologue to the Satires. L. 208.

25

Festinatio tarda est.

Haste is slow.

Quintus Curtius Rufus. IX. 9. 12.

(See also Cesar)