"Come my friends"

Come my friends

‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world ...

Though much is taken, much abides;

... that which we are we are, –

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

Lord Alfred Tennyson, Ulysses

 

"Flower in the crannied wall ...."

Flower in the crannied wall,

I pluck you out of the crannies,

I hold you here, root and all, in my hand,

Little flower – but if I could understand

What you are, root and all, and all in all,

I should know what God and man is.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson