Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

All that we behold is full of blessings.

Spade! Thou art a tool of honor in my hands. I press thee, through a yielding soil, with pride.

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

The sunshine is a glorious birth; But yet I know, where'er I go, That there hath passed away a glory from the earth.

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.

And now I see with eye serene, The very pulse of the machine. A being breathing thoughtful breaths, A traveler between life and death.