"The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears…"

"There scatter'd oft the earliest of ye Year By Hands unseen are showers of Vi'lets found; The Redbreast loves to buil…"

"Vestigia terrent Omnia te adversum spectantia, nulla retrorsum."

"And so to tread As if the wind, not she, did walk; Nor prest a flower, nor bow'd a stalk."

"Her treading would not bend a blade of grass, Or shake the downy blow-ball from his stalk!"

"A foot more light, a step more true, Ne'er from the heath-flower dashed the dew."

"The grass stoops not, she treads on it so light."

"Steps with a tender foot, light as on air, The lovely, lordly creature floated on."

"Methought I saw the footsteps of a throne."

"If you enjoy watching birds, you stand in good company. There are, in the estimate of the National Survey on Recreati…"