Knowing God's own time is best, In patient hope I rest... - John Greenleaf Whittier

It has often been said that the New World is deficient in the elements of poetry and romance ; that its bards must of necessity linger over the classic ruins of other lands; and draw their sketches of character from foreign sources, and paint Nature under the soft beauty of an Eastern sky. On the contrary, New England is full of Romance....we have mountains pillaring a sky as blue as that which bends over classic Olympus; streams as bright and beautiful as those of Greece and Italy, and forests richer and nobler than those which of old were haunted by Sylph and Dryad.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

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