Oh, Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land!
I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.
Such hath it been--shall be--beneath the sun The many still must labour for the one.
Physicians mend or end us, Secundum artem; but although we sneer - In health - when ill we call them to attend us, Without the least propensity to jeer
A sort of hostile transaction, very necessary to keep the world going, but by no means a sinecure to the parties concerned.
Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.