The safeguards of Thy righteous law;
And, cast in some diviner mold,
Let the new cycle shame the old!
FOOTNOTE:
[21] By permission of, and special arrangement with, Houghton, Mifflin & Co., authorized publishers of this author's works.
THE CHAMBERED NAUTILUS[22]
Oliver Wendell Holmes
This is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign,
Sails the unshadowed main,—