But who will watch my lilies, When their blossoms open white? By day the sun shall be sentry, And the moon and the stars by night!

There's a pang in all rejoicing, And a joy in the heart of pain; And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

The Germans form one of the most important branches of the Indo-Germanic or Aryan race - a division of the human family which also includes the Hindoos, Persians, Greeks, Romans, Celts, and the Slavonic tribes.

The bravest are the most tender; the loving are the daring.

'Really,' thought I, 'we call Baltimore the 'Monumental City' for its two marble columns, and here is Edinburg with one at every street-corner!'

Fame is what you have taken, character is what you give; when to this truth you waken then you begin to live.