Revolts, republics, revolutions, most/ No graver than a schoolboy's barring out.

No little lily-handed Baronet he,/ A great broad-shouldered genial Englishman,/ A lord of fat prize-oxen and of sheep,/ A raiser of huge melons and of pine,/ A patron of some thirty charities.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments."

[On Water]

The shell must break before the bird can fly.

And so the Word had breath, and wrought/ With human hands the creed of creeds/ In loveliness of perfect deeds,/ More strong than all poetic thought.

Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.