Above the youth's inspired and flashing eyes/I see the motley, mocking fool's-cap rise. - Thomas Hardy

After wearing and wasting her palpitating heart with every engine of regret that lonely inexperience could devise, common sense had illumined her. She felt that she would do well to be useful again — to taste anew sweet independence at any price. The past was past; whatever it had been, it was no more at hand. Whatever its consequences, time would close over them;

... it might have resulted far better for mankind if Greece had been the source of the religion of modern civilization, and not Palestine

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up there I shall be — and whenever I look up, there will be you.
-Gabriel Oak