Oliver Cromwell’s grace before dinner:—
Some have meat, but cannot eat,
And some can eat, but have not meat,
And so—the Lord be praised.
Life and Death.
All death in nature is birth, and in death appears visibly the advancement of life. There is no killing principle in nature, for nature throughout is life: it is not death that kills, but the higher life, which, concealed behind the other, begins to develop itself. Death and birth are but the struggle of life with itself to attain a higher form.—Fichte.
I came in the morning,—it was spring,
And I smiled;
I walked out at noon,—it was summer,
And I was glad;