It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

I thought that the light-house looked lovely as hope, That star on life's tremulous ocean.

Good Demeter mothering keeps a child in the heat and passion of life which immortalize and establish soulfulness. Mothering involves not only physical survival and achievement—Demeter's grain and fruit—it is also concerned with guiding a child to his or her unknown depths and the mystery of fate.

Soul is to be found in the vicinity of taboo.

And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch'd by the thorns.

All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.