Gripe takes me for his faithful friend, Imparts to me the secrets of his heart; And Plod-all thinks I am as true a friend To every enterprise he takes in hand, As ever breath'd under the cope of heaven:

When Aurelius saw how sad she was, and was told that she had come in obedience to her husband's wishes, he said he would rather die than injure so true a wife and noble a gentleman.

That the above specimens are an exact likeness of the mass of colored people we do not pretend; but we do affirm, that they are as true an index to the whole community, as the merchants, physicians, and mechanics of any of our villages are to the entire population.

Thou hast too true a face for such a deed. Rach.

"I believe him, however," he said, "to have been as disinterested a man, and as true a lover of his country, as it was possible for so ambitious a man to be.

50 He, tost by fate, and hurried up and down, Heir to his father's sorrows, with his crown, Could taste no sweets of youth's desired age, But found his life too true a pilgrimage. Unconquer'd yet in that forlorn estate, His manly courage overcame his fate.

Too true a prophet to foresee the fate That should so soon divide their happy state; When he to heaven entirely must restore That love, that heart, where he went halves before.

[Illustration] True the report that reached my far-off land Of all His wisdom and transcendent fame,

Or should in sleep glad visions come: Sick, in an alien land, for home Would be my eyes in their bright beam; Awake, we know 'tis not a dream; Asleep, some devil in the mind Might truest thoughts with false enwind.

Their faces were a study as the wee piano was set up again, and Johnson, in uniform, of course sat down and trued a chord or two.

He told them of the impending flood, The threatening of the Lord; And that His counsel sure would stand, And ever true His word.

Thus we are told how: "On upland slopes the shepherds mark The hour when, to the dial true, Cichorium to the towering lark, Lifts her soft eye, serenely blue.

Titus Andronicus, v. 1, "As true a dog as ever fought at head."