O earth, what changes hast thou seen!

Things seen are mightier than things heard.

In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perfect deeds,/ More strong than all poetic thought.