Reginald Heber

"Failed the bright promise of your early day?"

"Remember that every guilty compliance with the humors of the world, every sinful indulgence of our own passions, is laying up cares and fears for the hour of darkness; and that the remembrance of ill-…"

"Eternity has no gray hairs! The flowers fade, the heart withers, man grows old and dies, the world lies down in the sepulchre of ages, but time writes no wrinkles on the brow of Eternity."

"Thou art gone to the grave; but we will not deplore thee, Though sorrows and darkness encompass the tomb."

"We deny our Lord whenever, like Demas, we through love of this present world forsake the course of duty which Christ has plainly pointed out to us."

"Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love."

"Thus heavenly hope is all serene, But earthly hope, how bright soe’er, Still fluctuates o’er this changing scene, As false and fleeting as ’t is fair."

"No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung, Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung. Majestic silence."