33 Quotes by Alfred Noyes

There’s a magic in the distance, where the sea-line meets the sky.

Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind, One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea, One in many, O broken and blind, One as the waves are at one with the sea! Ay! when life seems scattered apart, Darkens, ends as a tale that is told, One, we are one, O heart of my heart, One, still one, while the world grows old.

Beauty is a fading flower,Truth is but a wizard's tower,Where a solemn death-bell tolls,And a forest round it rolls.

Your dreamers may dream it The shadow of a dream, Your sages may deem it A bubble on the stream; Yet our kingdom draweth nigher With each dawn and every day, Through the earthquake and the fire Love will find out the way.

Heart of my heart, the world is young; Love lies hidden in every rose!

Enough of dreams! No longer mock The burdened hearts of men! Not on the cloud, but on the rock Build thou thy faith again; O range no more the realms of air, Stoop to the glen-bound streams; Thy hope was all too like despair: Enough, enough of dreams.

Happy, happy, happy for all that God hath done, Glad of all the little leaves dancing in the sun.

Oh, grown-ups cannot understand, And grown-ups never will, How short the way to fairyland Across the purple hill.

At the end of Revelation there is again that solemn insistence on the personal testimony, and even more solemn warning to those who would impugn it.