To character and success, two things, contradictory as they may seem, must go together... humble dependence on God and manly reliance on self.

Far from the world I walk, and from all care.

She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament; Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn.

How does the Meadow flower its bloom unfold? Because the lovely little flower is free down to its root, and in that freedom bold.

By all means sometimes be alone; salute thyself; see what thy soul doth wear; dare to look in thy chest; and tumble up and down what thou findest there.

The light that never was, on sea or land; The consecration, and the Poet's dream.

I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.