Tis well to borrow from the good and the great; 'Tis wise to learn: 'tis God-like to create! - John Godfrey Saxe

'T is wise to learn; 't is God-like to create.

A youth would marry a maiden, For fair and fond was she; But their sires disputed about the Mass, And so it might not be.

"Once more, my gallant boys!" he cried:
"Three times! — you know the fable, — (I'll make it thirty," muttered he, "But I will lay the cable!")

When Nature gives a gorgeous rose, Or yields the simplest fern, She writes this motto on the leaves, — "To whom it may concern!" And so it is the poet comes And revels in her bowers, And, — though another hold the land, Is owner of the flowers.