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• Shall victor exult, or in death be laid low, With his back to the field and his feet to the foe, And leaving in battle no blot on his name, Look proudly to heaven from the death-bed of fame.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Lochiel's Warning...
• Coming events do cast shadows. Writers know that their books are often prophetic.
  One gratuitously imagines what is really going to happen....
• All sins cast long shadows. Irish Proverb
• And rustic life and poverty Grow beautiful beneath his touch.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- Ode to the Memory of Bu...
• In life's morning march, when my bosom was young.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- The Soldier's Dream...
• Oh leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- The Beech-Tree's Petitio...
• Is this all that's left of my life before me?
• Another's sword has laid him low, Another's and another'
  And every hand that dealt the blow-- Ah me! it was a brother's!...
• Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky When storms prepare to part, I ask not proud Philosophy To teach me what thou art.
  -- Thomas Campbell (1777-1844) -- To the Rainbow...