Johann W. von Goethe born 1749.
Ormsby MacKnight Mitchel born 1809.
Jones Very born 1813.
Count Lyoff (Leo) Tolstoy born 1828.
Sir Edward Burne-Jones born 1833.
Leigh Hunt died 1859.
All truly wise thoughts have been already thought a thousand times;
but to make them truly ours we must think them over again honestly,
till they take firm root in our personal experience.
--Goethe.
The light that fills thy house at morn
Thou canst not for thyself retain;
But all who with thee here are born
It bids to share an equal gain.
The wave, the blue encircling wave,
No chain can bind, no fetter hold;
Its thunders tell of Him who gave
What none can ever buy for gold.
--Jones Very.