Say not "a small event!" Why "small"? Costs it more pain that this ye call A "great event" should come to pass From that? Untwine me from the mass Of deeds which make up life, one deed Power shall fall short in or exceed!

You never know what life means till you die; even throughout life, tis death that makes life live.

I hold that a man should strive to the uttermost for his life's set prize.

We find great things are made of little things, And little things go lessening till at last Comes God behind them.

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

Therefore I summon age / To grant youth's heritage.