The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest.

If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen.

Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced.

Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies.

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.