"Jim," she said earnestly, "if I was put down there in the middle of the night, I could find my way all over that little town; and... along the river to the next town, where my grandmother lived. My feet remember all the little paths through the woods, and where the big roots stick out to trip you. I ain't never forgot my own country."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to... stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and the future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
This is the Night Mail crossing the Border, Bringing the cheque and the postal order,... Letters for the rich, letters for the poor, The shop at the corner, the girl next door.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every morn and every night Some to misery are born.... Every morn and every night Some are born to sweet delight. Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nature in darkness groans And men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night:... Restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in their inmost brain Feeling the crushing wheels, they rise, they write the bitter words Of stern philosophy & knead the bread of knowledge with tears & groans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The North will at least preserve your flesh for you; Northerners are pale for good and all. There's very little difference between... a dead Swede and a young man who's had a bad night. But the Colonial is full of maggots the day after he gets off the boat.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »