Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always to be blessed.

Their love was of that kind which grows quickly, but is as eternal as the heavens.

Even in his most anti-theistic poem, Queen Mab, Shelley said in a note'The hypothesis of a pervading Spirit, co-eternal with the universe, remains unshaken.' +Stanza 43,+ 11.

She listened to it as it shrieked about the slabs and boulders of granite; the sound was indescribably eerie, filled with unrest, eloquent of the brutal contempt of the eternal for the feeble and transient.

He was like one of those fabled horses, the offspring of the wind, and like the wind, tireless, eternal of motion.

Ye know the spheres, and various tasks assigned By laws eternal to th' aërial kind.

For, as Theophrastus well observes, wholes would possess less authority than parts, and things eternal than such as are corruptible, if deprived of the possession of soul.

The stream produced nor slimy ooze, nor weeds, Nor miry rushes, nor the spiky reeds; 20 But dealt enriching moisture all around, The fruitful banks with cheerful verdure crowned, And kept the spring eternal on the ground.

The very tone of the high ranges is that of silence vast and eternal beyond scope of thought, and the only sounds that can fittingly shatter that mighty breathlessness are the great, calamitous phenomena of nature,the thunder crashing in the sky and the avalanche on the slope.

That protection cannot be continued and that right cannot be maintained, except by jealously preserving at all times and under all circumstances the rule of principle which is eternal over the will of majorities which shift and pass away.

Beneath, in order ranged, the tuneful Nine (Her virgin handmaids) still attend the shrine: With eyes on Fame for ever fixed, they sing; For Fame they raise the voice, and tune the string: With Time's first birth began the heavenly lays, And last eternal through the length of days.

One of the most powerful factors of religious life in its higher forms is the need of man to find in this world of changing things an imperishable essence, to separate the eternal from the temporal and then to attach himself to the former.