Will Carleton Quotes on Mind (2 Quotes)

Underneath an apple-treeSat a maiden and her loverAnd the thoughts within her heYearned, in silence, to discover.Round them danced the sunbeams bright,Green the grass-lawn stretched before themWhile the apple blossoms whiteHung in rich profusion o'er them.

Careful with fire, is good advice, we know; Careful with words, is ten times doubly so. Thoughts unexpressed may sometimes fall back dead; But God himself can't kill them when they're said.