“From morning suns and evening dews
At first thy little being came:
If nothing once, you nothing lose,
For when you die you are the same;
...The space between, is but an hour,
...The frail duration of a flower.” 1

Beauty, don’t leave me
alone….

“Rock of Ages, cleft for me,
I shall hide myself in thee.
From the water and the blood,
And the wounded side which flowed,
Be, of sin, the double cure.
Save from wrath and make me pure…” 2


1To a Wild Honeysuckle (excerpt)
by Philip Freneau (1786)

2 Rock of Ages, Cleft for me (excerpt)
by Augustus Toplady (1776)