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• I dreamt that I dwelt in marble halls, With vassals and serfs at my side.
  -- Alfred Bunn (1790-1860) -- Song...
• The heart bowed down by weight of woe To weakest hope will cling.
  -- Alfred Bunn (1790-1860) -- Song...
• All in the valley of death Rode the six hundred.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- The Charge of the Light Brigade, Stanza 1...
• I saw Eternity the other night, / Like a great ring of pure and endless light, / All calm, as it was brigh
  / And round beneath it, / Time in hours, days, years, / Driv'n by the spheres / Like a vast shadow mov'd...
• I saw Eternity the other night, Like a great ring of pure and endless light, All calm, as it was brigh
  And round beneath it, Time, in hours, days, years, Driv'n by the spheres Like a vast shadow moved, in which the world And all her train were hurled....
• PAST, n. That part of Eternity with some small fraction of which we have a slight and regrettable acquaintance.
  A moving line called the Present parts it from an imaginary period known as the Future....
• I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree.
  Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all....
• I see them walking in an air of glory Whose light doth trample on my days,-- My days, which are at best but dull and hoary, Mere glimmering and decays.
  -- Henry Vaughan (1621-1695) -- They are all gone...