To-morrow, what delight is in to-morrow!
What laughter and what music, breathing joy.
Float from the woods and pastures, wavering down,
Dropping like echoes through the long to-day,
Where childhood waits with weary expectation.
Nemo tamen divos habuit faventeia
Crastinum ut possit sibi polliceri.
No one has had gods so favourable to him that he can promise himself a morrow.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death.
Where art thou, beloved To-morrow?
When young and old, and strong and weak,
Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow,
Thy sweet smiles we ever seek,—
In thy place—ah! well-a-day!
We find the thing we fled—To-day!
Shelley—To-Morrow.
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| text = To-morrow yet would reap to-day.
As we bear blossoms of the dead;
Earn well the thrifty months, nor wed
Raw Haste, half-sister to Delay.
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Morgen, Morgen, nur nicht heute;
Sprechen immer trage Leute.
To-morrow, to-morrow, not to-day,
Hear the lazy people say.
Weisse—Der Aufschub.
A Man he seems of cheerful yesterdays
And confident to-morrows.
Wordsworth—The Excursion. Bk. VII.
In human hearts what bolder thoughts can rise,
Than man's presumption on to-morrow's dawn!
Where is to-morrow?
Young—Night Thoughts. Night I. L. 374.
To-morrow is a satire on to-day,
And shows its weakness.
Young—The Old Man's Relapse. L. 6.
Some say "to-morrow" never comes,
A saying oft thought right;
But if to-morrow never came,
No end were of "to-night."
The fact is this, time flies so fast,
That e'er we ve time to say
"To-morrow's come," presto! behold!
"To-morrow" proves "To-day."
Author Unknown. From Notes and
Fourth Series. Vol. XII.
u TONGUE
The first vertue, sone, if thou wilt lerne,
Is to restreyne and kepen wel thy tonge.
Chaucer—Canterbury Tales. The Manciple's
Tale. L. 18,213.
The stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones.
Many have fallen by the edge of the sword;
but not so many as have fallen by the tongue.
Ecclesiasticus. XXVIH. 17. 18.
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
Matthew Henry—Commentaries. Psalms.
XXXI.
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| work = 1—J acuta Prudentum.
The windy satisfaction of the tongue.
Homer—Odyssey. Bk. IV. L. 1,092
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The tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil.
James. III. 8.
Though wickedness be sweet in his mouth,
though he hide it under his tongue.
Job. XX. 12.
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| text = <poem>Lingua mali pars pessima servi.
The tongue is the vile slave's vilest part.
Juvenal—Satires. LX. 120.
I should think your tongue had broken its chain!
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| work = Christus. The Golden Legend.
Pt. IV.
In her tongue is the law of kindness.
Proverbs. XXXI. 26.
From the strife of tongues.
Psalms. XXXI. 20.
Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips from
speaking guile.
Psalms. XXXIV. 13.
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalms. XLV. 1.
Since word is thrall, and thought is free,
Keep well thy tongue, I counsel thee.
James I. of Scotland. Ballad of good Counsel,
quoted by Scott in Fair M aid of Perth. Ch.
Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's
undoing.
All's Well That Ends Well. . Act II. Sc. 4.
L. 23.
Tongues I'll hang on every tree,
That shall civil sayings show.
As You Like It. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 135.
My tongue, though not my heart, shall have
his will.
Comedy of Errors. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 18.
