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Even from the deepest sorrow, the patient and thoughtful mind will gather richer wisdom than pleasure ever yielded. "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made." "Consider," said Jeremy Taylor, "that sad accidents, and a state of afflictions, is a school of virtue.
Before daylight the bugles began to sound, and we were led down to the green before the tavern door, where already were close upon five hundred gather'd, that had been billeted about the village and were now forming in order of march a soil'd, batter'd crew, with torn ensigns and little heart in their movements.
'Twas my friend the pickpocket: and he sat before a fire of dry sticks a little way back from the road. His scanty hair, stiff as a badger's, now stood upright around his batter'd cap, and he look'd at me over the bushes, with his hook'd nose thrust forward like a bird's beak. "Bien lightmans, comrade good day! 'Tis a good world; so stop and dine." I pull'd up my grey.
Now that the afternoon sun had left the front of the house, Ridley paced up and down the terrace repeating stanzas of a long poem, in a subdued but suddenly sonorous voice. Fragments of the poem were wafted in at the open window as he passed and repassed. Peor and Baalim Forsake their Temples dim, With that twice batter'd God of Palestine And mooned Astaroth
High deeds achieved of knightly fame, From Palestine the champion came; The cross upon his shoulders borne, Battle and blast had dimm'd and torn. Each dint upon his batter'd shield Was token of a foughten field; And thus, beneath his lady's bower, He sung as fell the twilight hour:
And with eyes starting from their sockets, and mouths agape with stupefying terror, they beheld on the ground near her a mangled, hideous mass the rough semblance of a human form all batter'd, and cut, and bloody. Attach'd to it was the fatal cord, dabbled over with gore.
"Is not as idle ore, But heated hot with burning fears, And bathed in baths of hissing tears, And batter'd, with the shocks of doom, To shape and use."
But if the true Reason of it, whatever it is, and which is so hard to be accounted for, were remov'd, and our Divines would interest themselves with Zeal in the Cause of Vertue, in respect to our Dramatick Entertainments, as they espouse and defend it in all other Instances, I cannot believe that the Stage, without a Regulation, would be able to stand, when batter'd with Vigor from the Pulpit.
The cairns in the Little Hills are of the former kind. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai, Whose portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultán after Sultán with his pomp Abode his destined hour and went his way. The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
It is a living illustration of the words of the poet: "Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp. Abode his destined Hour and went his way." The scene of her earliest memories was a small room with spotless floor-cloth, the windows whereof looked out upon the foliage of "ber" and tamarind. Then the scene changes.
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