Enough, if something from our hands have power

To live, and act, and serve the future hour:

And if, as toward the silent tomb we go,

Through love, through hope, and faith’s transcendent dower,

We feel that we are greater than we know.

Wordsworth (After-Thought).


You can’t turn curds to milk again,

Nor Now, by wishing, back to Then;

And, having tasted stolen honey,