Falsehoods which we spurn to-day Were the truths of long ago. - John Greenleaf Whittier

Let the thick curtain fall;
I better know than all
How little I have gained,
How vast the unattained.

"And one there was, a dreamer born,
Who, with a mission to fulfill,
Had left the Muses' haunts to turn
The crank of an opinion-mill,
Making his rustic reed of song
A weapon in the war with wrong,...
"A Tent on the Beach

God blesses still the generous thought,
And still the fitting word He speeds,
And Truth, at His requiring taught,
He quickens into deeds.