Alfred Noyes Quotes
Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.
Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.
Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.
Outlawed, but not alone, for Love Is outlawed, too. You cannot banish us, proud world: We banish you.
Luke associates John with Peter in Acts, when, after the Resurrection, that strange boldness had come upon the disciples.
Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon.
If ever I had any doubts about the fundamental realities of religion, they could always be dispelled by one memory- the light upon my father's face as he came back from early communion.
