[Soaring Feather]

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both
useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth
of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful,
old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a
beautiful success.
--Louisa May Alcott, Novelist

[Soaring Feather]

"I Thought of You"
by Sarah Teasdale

I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone
I heard the waves breaking in measured thunder
As you and I once heard their monotone.

Around me were the echoing dunes, beyond me
The cold and sparkling silver of the sea --
We two will pass through death and ages lengthen
Before you hear that sound again with me.