Weep not that the world changes -- did it keep a stable, changeless state, it were a cause indeed to weep.

Weep not that the world changes--did it keep A stable, changeless state, it were cause indeed to weep.

The birch-bark canoe of the savage seems to me one of the most beautiful and perfect things of the kind constructed by human art.

And we wept that one so lovely should have a life so brief;

Truth gets well if she is run over by a locomotive, while error dies of lockjaw if she scratches her finger

So gentle and so beautiful, should perish with the flowers.