for whenever men are right they are not young
Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.
I spill my bright incalculable soul
No evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love.
they believe in Christ and Longfellow, both dead
America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.