——“The tender grace of a day that is dead

Will never come back to me.”

——“O for the touch of a vanished hand,

And the sound of a voice that is still!”

“God gives us love! Something to love

He lends us; but when love is grown

To ripeness, that on which it throve

Falls off, and love is left alone:

“This is the curse of time. Alas!

In grief we are not all unlearned;