“ In a deep pool, by happy chance we saw A twofold image: on a grassy bank A snow-white ram, and in the crystal flood Another and the same! The Excursion ★ 4,6 ♥ 98 ⧉ ♡
“ The primal duties shine aloft, like stars; The charities that soothe and heal and bless Are scattered at the feet of man like flowers. The Excursion ★ 4,9 ♥ 215 ⧉ ♡
“ One in whom persuasion and belief Had ripened into faith, and faith become A passionate intuition. The Excursion ★ 4,7 ♥ 155 ⧉ ♡
“ And the most difficult of tasks to keep Heights which the soul is competent to gain. The Excursion ★ 4,7 ♥ 210 ⧉ ♡
“ The good die first, And they whose hearts are dry as summer dust Burn to the socket. The Excursion ★ 4,8 ♥ 127 ⧉ ♡
“ And when the stream Which overflowed the soul was passed away, A consciousness remained that it had left Deposited upon the silent shore Of memory images and precious thoughts That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed. The Excursion ★ 4,5 ♥ 163 ⧉ ♡
“ Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man, Could field or grove, could any spot of earth, Show to his eye an image of the pangs Which it hath witnessed,—render back an echo Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod! The Excursion ★ 4,5 ♥ 125 ⧉ ♡
“ For by superior energies; more strict Affiance in each other; faith more firm In their unhallowed principles; the bad Have fairly earned a victory o'er the weak, The vacillating, inconsistent good. The Excursion ★ 4,7 ♥ 81 ⧉ ♡