James Russell Lowell Quotes on Time
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The nurse of full-grown souls is solitude.
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Ye come and go incessant; we remain Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past; Be reverent, ye who flit and are forgot, Of faith so nobly realized as this.
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The Maple puts her corals on in May, While loitering frosts about the lowlands cling, To be in tune with what the robins sing.
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As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, 'Neath every one a friend.
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Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how; Everything is happy now, Everything is upward striving; 'Tis as easy now for the heart to be true As for grass to be green or skies to be blue,- 'Tis the natural way of living: Who knows whither the clouds have fled? In the unscarred heaven they leave no wake; And the eyes forget the tears they have shed, The heart forgets its sorrow and ache; The soul partakes the season's youth, And the sulphurous rifts of passion and woe Lie deep 'neath a silence pure and smooth, Like burnt-out craters healed with snow.
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What a sense of security in an old book which Time has criticized for us!
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Our slender life runs rippling by, and glides Into the silent hollow of the past; What is there that abides To make the next age better for the last?
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There is no work of genius which has not been the delight of mankind, no word of genius to which the human heart and soul have not sooner or later responded.
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An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.