The meteor flag of England Shall yet terrific burn, Till danger's troubled night depart, And the star of peace return.

On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh, No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I, No harp like my own could so cheerily play, And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.

Coming events cast their shadows before.

the soul of conversation is sympathy

O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?

Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.

Ye mariners of England! That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved a thousand years, The battle and the breeze!