Bible-"The tabernacle wherein the treasure of wisdom is to be found."

Richard de Bury, Bishop of Durham.

Bird―The life of the heavens.

-"Great nature's happy commoners." Rowe.

Birth (Our)-"Is but a sleep and a forgetting;
The soul that rises with us, our life's star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,

And cometh from afar."

Wordsworth.

(Our) "Is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste that instant they take fire."

Young.

Blossoms-"Fair pledges of a fruitful tree."

Herrick.

Blushes-Are flying colours, which maidens carry

becomingly.

Body-"The soul's dark cottage."

Waller.

Body-"The vase of earth, the trembling clod,
Constrained to hold the breath of God."

Sigourney.

"The temple of the Holy Ghost." St. Paul.

Books-"The voices of the distant and the dead."

W. E. Channing.

Bread-"Is the staff of life."

Swift.

Breeze-"The kiss of rustling wings."

Lamb.

Brook-"Laugh of the mountain! lyre of bird and

tree,

Pomp of the meadow! mirror of the morn!"

Longfellow, from the Spanish.

Calamity—" Is man's true touchstone.”

Beaumont and Fletcher.

Camel-The ship of the desert.