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

“Flowers spring to blossom where she walks The careful ways of duty;Our hard, stiff lines of life with her Are flowing curves of beauty.”

“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 windows of my soul I throwWide open to the sun.”

“And one there was, a dreamer born,Who, with a mission to fulfill,Had left the Muses' haunts to turnThe crank of an opinion-mill,Making his rustic reed of songA weapon in the war with wrong,... "A Tent on the Beach”

“Peace hath higher tests of manhood than battle ever knew.”

“No longer forward or behindI look in hope or fear,But grateful, take the good I find,The best of now and here.”