Quotes
Quotes - Buchanan
Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought.
I saw the starry Tree
Eternity
Put forth the blossom Time.
Full of a sweet indifference.
I say the world is lovely
And that loveliness is enough.
Believing hath a core of unbelieving.
A race that binds
Its body in chains and calls them Liberty,
And calls each fresh link Progress.
Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.
All that is beautiful shall abide,
All that is base shall die.
And the voice of men shall call, "He is fallen like us all, Though the weapon of the Lord was in his hand:" And thine epitaph shall be-- "He was wretched ev'n as we;" And thy tomb may be unhonoured in the land.
Our system is not one of justice, but of law.
She just wore enough for modesty; no more!
Pansies? You praise the ones that grow today Here in the garden; had you seen the place When Sutherland was living! Here they grew, From blue to deeper blue, in midst of each A golden dazzle like a glimmering star, Each broader, bigger than a silver crown; While here the weaver sat, his labor done, Watching his azure pets and rearing them, Until they seem'd to know his step and touch, And stir beneath his smile like living things: The very sunshine loved them, and would lie Here happy, coming early, lingering late, Because they were so fair.
One fine day, Says Mister Mucklewraith to me, says he. "So! you're a poet in your house," and smiled. "A Poet? God forbid," I cried; and then It all came out: how Andrew slyly sent Verse to the paper; how they printed it In Poet's Corner.
The earth is rocking, the skies are riven-- Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion, Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
So bent on self-sanctifying,-- That she never thought of trying To save her poor husband as well.
