Occupation: Poet Birth: June 14, 1832 Death: October 28, 1878
Great are the symbols of Being, But that which is symboled is greater; Vast the create and beheld, But vaster the Inward Creator..
Into the statue that breathes, the soul of the sculptor is bidden..
Fair are the flowers and the children, but their subtle suggestion is fairer; Rarer is the roseburst of dawn, but the secret that clasps it rarer; Sw….
Back of the sound broods the silence, back of the gift stands the giving; Back of the hand that receives thrill the sensitive nerves of receiving..
Never a daisy that grows, but a mystery guideth the growing; Never a river that flows, but a majesty scepters the flowing..