Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
It is long ere we discover how rich we are. Our history, we are sure, is quite tame: we have nothing to write, nothing to infer. But our wiser years still run back to the despised recollections of childhood. . . .
In judgement be ye not too confident, Even as a man who will appraise his corn When standing in a field, ere it is ripe.
While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
Love that well which thou must leave ere long.
Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.
Children learne to creepe ere they can learne to goe.
Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appear'd, And ages ere the Mantuan swan was heard: To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, ask'd ages more.
EXPRESSIONS Look without! Behold the beauty of the day, The shout of color to glad color, rocks and trees, and sun and seas, and wind and sky: All these are God's expression, art work of His hand, which men must love ere they can understand.
Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities.
Let us rejoice that we are poor, And have no gold to keep: We do not need to bar the door Ere we can go to sleep.
Prayer is the one prime, eternal condition by which the Father is pledged to put the Son in possession of the world. Christ prays through His people. Had there been importunate, universal, and continuous prayer by God's people, long ere this the earth had been possessed for Christ.
