Margaret Bird Steinmetz

Leaves of Life Margaret Bird Steinmetz

Bartolome Esteban Murillo, baptized 1618. Paul Revere born 1735. Betsy Ross born 1752. Maria Edgeworth born 1767. Arthur Hugh Clough born 1819. Old things need not be therefore true, O brother men, nor yet the new; Ah! still awhile the old thought retain, And yet consider it again! We! what do we see? each a space Of some few yards before his face; Does that the whole wide plan explain? Ah, yet consider it again! Alas! the great world goes its way, And takes its truth from each new day; They do not quit, nor can retain, Far less consider it again. -Arthur Hugh Clough. There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other a vice. -Maria Edgeworth. Oh send out thy light and thy truth; let them lead me: Let them bring me unto thy holy hill, And to thy tabernacles. -Psalm 43. 3.