Milton! thou should'st be living at this hour: England hath need of thee: she is a fen Of stagnant waters. - William Wordsworth

Be mild, and cleave to gentle things,
thy glory and thy happiness be there.

...The happy Warrior... is he... who, doomed to go in company with pain, and fear, and bloodshed, miserable train turns his necessity to glorious gain; in face of these doth exercise a power which is our human nature's highest dower: controls them and subdues, transmutes, bereaves of their bad influence, and their good receives: by objects, which might force the soul to abate her feeling, rendered more compassionate; is placable— because occasions rise so often that demand such sacrifice; more skillful in self-knowledge, even more pure, as tempted more; more able to endure, as more exposed to suffering and distress; thence, also, more alive to tenderness.

O Reader! had you in your mind Such stores as silent thought can bring, O gentle Reader! you would find A tale in everything.