Distichs.

CHORDS are touch'd by Apollo,—the death-laden bow, too, he bendeth; While he the shepherdess charms, Python he lays in the dust. - WHAT is merciful censure? To make thy faults appear smaller? May be to veil them? No, no! O'er them to raise thee on high! - DEMOCRATIC food soon cloys on the multitude's stomach; But I'll wager, ere long, other thou'lt give them instead. - WHAT in France has pass'd by, the Germans continue to practise, For the proudest of men flatters the people and fawns. - WHO is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, And in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own. - NOT in the morning alone, not only at mid-day he charmeth; Even at setting, the sun is still the same glorious planet.