John Greenleaf Whittier

The laws of changeless justice bind oppressor and oppressed; and, close as sin and suffering joined we march to fate abreast.

Nothing before, nothing behind; The steps of faith Fall on the seeming void, and find The Rock beneath.

the joy that you give to others is the joy that comes back to you

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

I know not where His islands lift Their fronded palms in air; I only know I cannot drift Beyond His love and care.

I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

The continuity of life is never broken; the river flows onward and is lost to our sight, but under its new horizon it carries the same waters which it gathered under ours, and its unseen valleys are made glad by the offerings which are borne down to them from the past,--flowers, perchance, the germs of which its own waves had planted on the banks of Time.

The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

God is good and God is light In this faith I rest secure, Evil can but serve the right, Over all shall love endure.