Bryant

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    Man hath no part in all this glorious work:
    The hand that built the firmament hath heaved
    And smoothed these verdant swells, and sown their slopes
    With herbage,
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    To him who, in the love of Nature, holds
    Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
    A various language: for his gayer hours
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)

    Difficulty, my brethren, is the nurse of greatness—a harsh nurse, who roughly rocks her foster-children into strength and athletic proportion.
    —William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878)