Green sods are all their monument; and yet it tells A nobler history than pillared piles, Or the eternal pyramids.
James Gates PercivalI am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.
James Gates PercivalSweet flower, thou tellest how hearts as pure and tender as thy leaf, as low and humble as thy stem, will surely know the joy that peace imparts.
James Gates Percival