• Pause not to dream of the future before us;
    Pause not to weep the wild cares that come o’er us;
    Hark! how Creation’s deep, musical chorus,
      Unintermitting, goes up into Heaven!
    Never the ocean-wave falters in flowing;
    Never the little seed stops in its growing;
    More and more richly the rose-heart keeps glowing,
      Till from its nourishing...