Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the read more

Like the dew on the mountain,
Like the foam on the river,
Like the bubble on the fountain,
Thou are gone, and for ever!

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

Things that are not at all, are never lost.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

Wise men never sit and wail their loss, but cheerily seek how to redress their harms.

But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.

But over all things brooding slept
The quiet sense of something lost.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.

Praising what is lost Makes the remembrance dear.

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.

Whatever you can lose, you should reckon of no account.