Life’s more than breath, and the quick round of blood— We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths— We should count time by heart-throbs. He most lives Who thinks most—feels the noblest—acts the best. Life’s but a means unto an end— §Helen§ (_sings_.) Oh! love is like the rose, And a month it may not see, Ere it withers where it grows— Rosalie! I loved thee from afar; Oh! my heart was lift to thee Like a glass up to a star— Rosalie! Thine eye was glassed in mine As the moon is in the sea, And its shine is on the brine— Rosalie! The rose hath lost its red, And the star is in the sea, And the briny tear is shed— Rosalie! §Festus.§ What the stars are to the night, my love, What its pearls are to the sea, What the dew is to the day, my love, Thy beauty is to me. We may say that the sun is dead, and gone Forever; and may swear he will rise no more; The skies may put on mourning for their God, And earth heap ashes on her head; but who Shall keep the sun back when he thinks to rise? Where is the chain shall bind him? Where the cell Shall hold him? Hell he would burn down to embers, And would lift up the world with a lever of light Out of his way: yet, know ye, ’twere thrice less To do thrice this, than keep the soul from God. Many of the most expressive sentences in the Bible are monosyllabic. A few are subjoined, selected at random:— And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good.—_Gen. I._ At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay down: at her feet he bowed, he fell: where he bowed, there he fell down dead.—_Judges V._ O Lord my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me. O Lord, thou hast brought up my soul from the grave: thou hast kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit. Sing unto the Lord, O ye saints of his, and give thanks.—_Psalm XXX._ And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live?—_Ezek. XXXVII._ Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.—_1 Thess. V._ For if we be dead with him, we shall also live with him.—_2 Tim. II._ For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?—_Rev. VI._ And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day; for there shall be no night there.—_Rev. XXI._