What moistens the lip and what brightens the eye? What calls back the past like the rich pumpkin pie?
John Greenleaf WhittierI know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.
John Greenleaf WhittierWho fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
John Greenleaf WhittierIt is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth.
John Greenleaf Whittier