The rainy Pleiads wester, Orion plunges prone, The stroke of midnight ceases, And I lie down alone. - Alfred Edward Housman

His folly has not fellow Beneath the blue of day That gives to man or woman His heart and soul away.

The difference between an icicle and a red-hot poker is really much slighter than the difference between truth and falsehood or sense and nonsense; yet it is much more immediately noticeable and much more universally noticed, because the body is more sensitive than the mind.

These, in the day when heaven was falling, The hour when earth’s foundations fled, Followed their mercenary calling And took their wages and are dead. Their shoulders held the sky suspended; They stood, and earth’s foundations stay; What God abandoned, these defended, And saved the sum of things for pay.