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DECEMBER

1

Only the sea intoning,
Only the wainscot-mouse,
Only the wild wind moaning
Over the lonely house.

T. B. Aldrich —December, 1863.

2

Wild was the day; the wintry sea
Moaned sadly on New England's strand,
When first the thoughtful and the free,
Our fathers, trod the desert land.

Bryant—The Twenty-second of December.

3

December drops no weak, relenting tear,
By our fond Summer sympathies ensnared,
Nor from the perfect circle of the year
Can even Winter's crystal gems be spared.

C. P. Cranch—December.

4

Shout now! The months with loud acclaim,
Take up the cry and send it forth;
May breathing sweet her Spring perfumes,
November thundering from the North.
With hands upraised, as with one voice,
They join their notes in grand accord;
Hail to December! say they all,
It gave to Earth our Christ the Lord!

J. K. Hoyt—The Meeting of the Months.

5

In a drear-nighted December,
Too happy, happy brook,
Thy bubbhngs ne'er remember
Apollo's summer look;
But with a sweet forgetting,
They stay their crystal fretting,
Never, never petting
About the frozen time.

Keats—Stanzas.

6

In cold December fragrant chaplets blow,
And heavy harvests nod beneath the snow.

Pope—Dunciad. Bk. I. L. 77.

7

When we shall hear
The rain and wind beat dark December, how,
In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse
The freezing hours away?

Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 3. L. 36.

8

The sun that brief December day
Rose cheerless over hills of gray,
And, darkly circled, gave at noon
A sadder light than waning moon.

Whittier—Snow-Bound.

1. 1. DECISION ##

9

And her yes, once said to you,
Shall be Yes for evermore.

E. B. Browning—The Lady's Yes.

10

He only is a well-made man who has a good determination.

Emerson—Essay. Culture.

Multitudes in the valley of decision.
Joel. III. 14.
Decide not rashly. The decision made
Can never be recalled. The gods implore not,
Plead not, solicit not; they only offer
Choice and occasion, which once being passed
Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?

Longfellow—Masque of Pandora. Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus.

Once to every man and nation comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of Truth with Falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Lowell—The Present Crisis.

Men must be decided on what they will not
do, and then they are able to act with vigor in
what they ought to do.
Mencius—Works.
 | place = Bk. IV. Pt.n. Ch.VIH.

Determine on some course,
More than a wild exposure to each chance
That starts i' the way before thee.
Coriolanus. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 35.

For what I will, I will, and there an end.

Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 65.

Pleasure and revenge
Have ears more deaf than adders to the voice
Of any true decision.
TroHus and Cressida. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 171.
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Duke of Wellington—Letter to Mr. Huskisson.

DEE

(River)

Flow on, lovely Dee, flow on, thou sweet river,
Thy banks' purest stream shall be dear to me ever.
John Tatt—The Banks of the Dee.

"O Mary, go and call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
And call the cattle home,
Across the sands o' Dee;"
The western wind was wild and dank wi' foam
And all alone went she.
Charles Kingslet—The Sands o' Dee.

DEEDS

(See also Action)

 Who doth right deeds
Is twice born, and who doeth ill deeds vile.
Edwin Arnold—Light of Asia.
 | place = Bk. VI. L. 78.

Deeds, not words.

Beaumont and Fletcher—Lover's Progress. Act III. Sc. 6.

(See also Butler, Cicero, Plautus)

All your better deeds

Shall be in water writ, but this in marble.

Beaumont and Fletcher—Pilaster. Act V. Sc. 3

(See also Bertaut, More; also Henry VIII under Manners, Bacon under Life)