Reprove not in their wrath incensed men

First thinke, and if thy thoughts approve thy will, Then speake, and after what thou speakst fulfill.

SHEPHERD: Men are more eloquent then women made: NYMPH: But women are more powerfull to persuade.

Thinke that is just; 'tis not enough to doe, Unless thy very thoughts are upright too.

I look'd far back into the past, and lo! in bright array, I saw, as in a dream, the forms of ages pass'd away. It was a stately convent, with its old and lofty walls, And gardens with their broad green walks, where soft the footstep falls.

On the morning of January 11th, 1860, I passed, for the eighth time, through the Golden Gate... As the shores of California faded in the distance, and the summits of the Coast Range sank under the blue horizon, I bade farewell — yes, I do …

Tho’ sickness yet a while forbears, Yet time destroys what sickness spares; Now Helen lives alone in fame And Cleopatra's but a name; Time must indent that heav'nly brow, And thou must be what they are now.