I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.
Children have neither past nor future - they rejoice in the present.
I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
Rest if you must, but never quit.
Low stir of leaves and dip of oars And lapsing waves on quiet shores.
The age is dull and mean. Men creep, Not walk; with blood too pale and tame To pay the debt they owe to shame; Buy cheap, sell dear; eat. drink, and sleep down-pillowed, deaf to moaning want; Pay tithes for soul-insurance; keep Six days to Mammon, one to Cant