With more love inflame my soul, With more fervent zeal inspire; Faith, that can all power control, Fill the grasp of my desire.

Its plan was pronounced ridiculousits argument one-sidedits zeal assumedand Montague and Prior, two young men then rising into eminence, wrote a clever parody on it, entitled the "Town and Country Mouse."

Those who have lived in religious communities know that human nature is the same there as in the worldthat a man who is not straightforward may grow in monastic zeal day by day, but he will never grow straightforward.

But now, with more than common danger press'd, Of various resolutions stands possess'd, Perceives the crowd's unstable zeal decay Lest their recanting chief the cause betray, Who on a father's grace his hopes may ground, And for his pardon with their heads compound.

And let a suitor's voice and air, Thy grievances and zeal declare, We never scorn a humble prayer!"

And here O God! where feuds thy church divide The sectary's rancor, and the bigot's pride Melt every heart, till all our breasts enshrine One faith, one hope, one love, one zeal divine,

More lustrous still from age to age, All reverent plans their zeal engage; And brilliant statesmen owe their birth To this much-favored spot of earth.

You unfeigned Crusading zeal evince?

Oh, Sir, thy zeal hath mated with thy conscience

"To him who in faith and zeal labors in this great and holy cause a rich reward is secured.

So may your life pass on, and run so even, That your firm zeal plant you a throne in heaven, Where smiling angels shall your guardians be From blemish'd traitors, stain'd with perjury.

Yourself with studious zeal prepare, And closely in your manual look, Hereby may you be quite aware

It is the most paralyzing, zeal-quenching doctrine that ever was preached in the Church, and I believe has produced its legitimate fruit of nothingness in reducing us to nothing, when we ought to have been a light in the Christian Church....

105 "Or, if you thirst with hardy zeal Less quiet regions to explore, Prompt voyage shall to you reveal How earth and heaven are taught to feel The might of magic lore!" 110 "My little vagrant Form of light, My gay and beautiful Canoe, Well have you played your friendly part; As kindly take what from my heart Experience forcesthen adieu!

Even envy must consent to Helon's worth, Whose soul, though Egypt glories in his birth, Could for our captive-ark its zeal retain.

For these, devoutly, to the gods she bows, And offers daily praise, and daily vows: Phoebus, well-pleas'd, the sacrifice regards; And thus the grateful mother's zeal rewards: 'Beauty and wit, to all of Bristol's line!

She thought that Christian piety owes a large debt of gratitude to such writers as Thomas à Kempis, Madame Guyon, Fenelon, Leighton, Tersteegen, and others like them in earlier and later times, to whom "the secret of the Lord" seemed in a peculiar manner to have been revealed, and who with seraphic zeal trod as well as taught the paths of peace and holiness.

None can say I am remiss, and heedless of thy dismal fate; Love comes to prompt me every hour, he will not let my zeal abate.

Up scholar, lave, with zeal undying, Thine earthly breast in the morning-red!"