"But O the truth, the truth! the many eyes That look on it! the diverse things they see!"

"On a starred night Prince Lucifer uprose. Tired of his dark dominion swung the fiend."

"Earth, the mother of all, Moves on her stedfast way, Gathering, flinging, sowing. Mortals, we live in her day, She in…"

"The song seraphically free Of taint of personality, So pure that it salutes the suns The voice of one for millions, I…"

"For singing till his heaven fills, 'Tis love of earth that he instils, And ever winging up and up, Our valley is his …"

"See ye not, Courtesy Is the true Alchemy, Turning to gold all it touches and tries?"

"First of earthly singers, the sun-loved rill."

"It's past parsons to console us: No, nor no doctor fetch for me: I can die without my bolus; Two of a trade, lass, ne…"

"Into the breast that gives the rose, Shall I with shuddering fall?"

"Around the ancient track marched, rank on rank, The army of unalterable law."