Truth crushed to earth shall rise again:
The eternal years of God are hers.
1962
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: The Battle-field.
Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 1963 HERBERT: Temple, Church Porch, St. 13.
Truth has such a face and such a mien,
As to be lov’d, needs only to be seen.
1964
DRYDEN: Hind and Panther, Pt. i., Line
33.
He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves beside.
1965
COWPER: Task, Bk. v., Line 133.
Truth is one;
And, in all lands beneath the sun,
Whoso hath eyes to see may see
The tokens of its unity.
1966
WHITTIER: Miriam.
Truth is truth howe’er it strike. 1967 ROBERT BROWNING: La Saisiaz, Line 198.
I love truth: truth’s no cleaner thing than love. 1968 MRS. BROWNING: Aurora Leigh, Bk. iii., Line 735.
Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 1969 KEATS: Ode on a Grecian Urn.
Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. 1970 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: Present Crisis, St. 8.
=Tulips.=
Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays Her idle freaks; from family diffused To family, as flies the father-dust, The varied colors run; and while they break On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks, With secret pride, the wonders of his hand. 1971 THOMSON: Seasons, Spring, Line 539.
=Tune.=
Strange that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long!
1972
WATTS: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Bk.
ii., Hymn 19.
=Turf.=
Green be the turf above thee,
Friend of my better days!
1973
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: On Joseph Rodman Drake.
=Turk.=
Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. 1974 POPE: Prologue to the Satires, Line 197.
=Twilight.=
Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. 1975 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 598.
Peacefully
The quiet stars came out, one after one;
The holy twilight fell upon the sea,
The summer day was done.
1976
CELIA THAXTER: A Summer Day, St. 15
=Tyranny.=
’Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss. 1977 SHAKS.: Pericles, Act i., Sc. 2.
’Twixt kings and tyrants there’s this difference known— Kings seek their subjects’ good, tyrants their own. 1978 HERRICK: Aph. Kings and Tyrants.
Think’st thou there is no tyranny but that
Of blood and chains?
1979
BYRON: Sardanapalus, Act i., Sc. 2.
==U.==
=Uncertainty.=
Oh, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day!
1980
SHAKS.: Two Gent. of V., Act i., Sc. 3.