Two roses on one slender spray In sweet communion grew, Together hailed the morning ray And drank the evening dew.

Eagle of flowers! I see thee stand, And on the sun's noon-glory gaze; With eye like his, thy lids expand, And fringe their disk with golden rays: Though fix'd on earth, in darkness rooted there, Light is thy element, thy dwelling air, Thy prospect heaven.

The Dead are like the stars by day; Withdrawn from mortal eye, But not extinct, they hold their way In glory through the sky.

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever.

Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

Blue thou art, intensely blue; Flower, whence came thy dazzling hue?

Time is eternity begun.