Park Benjamin, Sr.

Quotes

• “I'm king of the dead—and I make my throneOn a monument slab of marble cold;And my scepter of rule is the spade I hold:Come they from cottage or come they from hall,Mankind are my subjects, all, all, all!Let them loiter in pleasure or toilfully spin—I gather them in, I gather them in!”
• “Flowers are Love's truest language.”
• “The mountain rillSeeks with no surer flow the far bright sea,Than my unchang'd affections flow to thee.”
• “Great faith it needs, according to my view,To trust in that which never could be true.”
• “He loved his kind, but sought the love of few,And valued old opinions more than new.”
• “But then to part! to part when TimeHas wreathed his tireless wing with flowers,And spread the richness of a climeOf fairy o'er this land of ours;When glistening leaves and shaded streamsIn the soft light of Autumn lay,And, like the music of our dreams,The viewless breezes seemed to stray—'T was bitter then to rend the heartWith the sad thought that we must part;And, like some low and mournful spell,To whisper but one word—farewell!”

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