At that moment the wind blew.
"Nevertheless, it is here," quoth my oak, with pleasure in all his roots, what time the dandelion was blown out of hearing.
ORNAMENT BEFORE DRESS
Who doubts but Eve had a rose in her hair
Ere fig leaves fettered her limbs?
So Life wore poetry's perfect rose
Before 'twas clothed with economic prose.
Homer before Pherecydes,
Caedmon before Alfred.
Every rule is a sign of weakness. A man needs no rules to make him eat, when he is hungry: and a law is a badge of disgrace. Yet we are able to console ourselves, from points of view which terminate in duty, order, and the like advantages.