“My sweet,” she said, “as yet I am not wise, Or stored with words aright the tale to tell, But listen: when I opened first mine eyes I stood within the niche thou knowest well, And from my hand a heavy thing there fell Carved like these flowers, nor could…

Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end?  Let Thy mercy gleam that I may ask, if so be the secret penalties of men, and those darkest pangs of the sons of Adam, may perhaps answer me.  Whence is this monstrousness? and to what end?  The mind commands the body,…

[Rooster]  “Bo was about played out and I hollered up for that Hutchens to come help me.  He was sitting up there on his horse smoking a pipe.  Now, he wasn’t a regular drover.  He was from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and he had some interest in the herd.  He said ‘Do…

Never in peace or war have I seen so vast a concourse.  There were tens of thousands of them, all silent, every face watching me.  Among them I saw Batta and the King my father and the Fox and Argan.  They were all ghosts.  In my foolishness I had not…

No matter how long you might stay at the spring, you would always be beginning to see the water.  For the water never stops flowing, and it is always beginning to bubble up again.  It is the same with one who fixes his gaze on the infinite beauty of God. …

‘Rat!’ he found breath to whisper, shaking.  ‘Are you afraid?’ ‘Afraid?’ murmured the Rat, his eyes shining with unutterable love.  ‘Afraid!  Of Him?  O, never, never!  And yet – and yet – O, Mole, I am afraid!’ -The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame Over the last few weeks I…