The old Man clears his rheumy eye, The six months' Babe forgets to cry; No passers byall fondly gloat, So welcome is thy cheering note, Which time nor taste has ever changed; And after every clime we've ranged, Return to theeour childhood's joy, And, spite of age, still play the boy!

We told of the times when we had come nigh forgetting.

But there is this which makes the nature-worshiper's creed a more exalting one than that of the art-lover, that it is impersonal and compels the forgetting of one's self, which for an apostolate is essential.

I cannot keep it; but fear not my forgetting: I shall never forget you.

And we, we will drink to the future, and to forgettingto the forgetting of our enemies.

You so great a good forgetting, You for such a bliss so thankless, With such shameful ease surrender To this love-dream, this attachment?

Groping about in inky blackness might mean the forgetting of some article of apparel, which, if found later on, might lead to suspicion or even detection of the fraud.

"The student who daily recognizes how much he yet lacks, and as the months pass forgets not what he has succeeded in learning, may undoubtedly be called a lover of learning.

If this is true, it is the part of wisdom for a republic to limit the service of that officer at least to whom she has intrusted the management of her foreign relations, the execution of her laws, and the command of her armies and navies to a period so short as to prevent his forgetting that he is the accountable agent, not the principal; the servant, not the master.