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The monarch drank that happy hour
The sweetest, noblest draught of power.
The monarch drank that happy hour
The sweetest, noblest draught of power.
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
Drooping along the ground the vine misses its widowed elm.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
In grasping at uncertainties we lost that which is certain.
To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells
Ring Sabbath knells;
The sod's a cushion for his pious read more
To his tuned spirit the wild heather-bells
Ring Sabbath knells;
The sod's a cushion for his pious want,
And, consecrated by the heaven within it,
The sky-blue pool a font.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Fair words butter no parsnips.
Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money.
Nothing stings us so bitterly as the loss of money.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that
proceedeth out of the mouth of God.
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
He never sought to stem the current. [Of a statesman who
accommodates his views to public opinion.]
