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• Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Flowe...
• Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate
  Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait....
• That eagle's fate and mine are one, Which on the shaft that made him die Espied a feather of his own, Wherewith he wont to soar so high.
  -- Edmund Waller (1605-1687) -- To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing...
• There is no flock, however watched and tended, But one dead lamb is there
  There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended, But has one vacant chair....
• Into a world unknown,--the corner-stone of a nation!
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Courtship of Miles Standish, iv...
• FAIRY, n. A creature, variously fashioned and endowed, that formerly inhabited the meadows and forests.
  It was nocturnal in its habits, and somewhat addicted to dancing and the theft of children....
• And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
  -- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Evangeline, Part ii...
• Look, then, into thine heart, and write! -- Henry W.
  Longfellow (1807-1882) -- Voices of the Night, Prelude...
• What is there in thee, Moon! that thou should'st move My heart so potently?
  -- John Keats (1795-1821), "Endymio...