Truth crushed to the earth will rise again!

The February sunshine steeps your boughs and tints the buds and swells the leaves within.

And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.

A sculptor wields The chisel, and the stricken marble grows To beauty.

War, like all other situations of danger and of change, calls forth the exertion of admirable intellectual qualities and great virtues, and it is only by dwelling on these, and keeping out of sight the sufferings and sorrows, and all the crimes and evils that follow in its train, that it has its glory in the eyes of men.