One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.

Truth ever lovely - since the world began, The foe of tyrants, and the friend of man.

United States, your banner wears Two emblems--one of fame; Alas! the other that it bears Reminds us of your shame. Your banner's constellation types White freedom with its stars, But what's the meaning of the stripes? They mean your negroes' scars.

What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.

Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.

The popularity of that baby-faced boy, who possessed not even the elements of a good actor, was a hallucination in the public mind, and a disgrace to our theatrical history.

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.