Date: 1891

"In him there was a faith serene and strong, / In me an unrest, like the rush of water"

— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)

Date: 1891

"Yet in his stern creed lay a tender heart, / The husk o'erlaid a wealth of human kindness / And love, that fain their wisdom would impart / To purge the young soul of its earthly blindness"

— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)

Date: 1891

"And it did store the mind with furniture -- / In forms antique, forbidding peaceful slumber, / But morticed well, and fashioned to endure, / Hard to get into, or out of heads they cumber"

— Smith, Walter Chalmers (1824-1908)