“Be the day never so long,
Evermore at last they ring to evensong.”

“The little White Chapel
Is ringing its bell
With a ring-a-ding-dong,
All day long”

“So long as I was in your sight
I was your heart, your soul, your treasure;
And evermore you sobb'd and sigh'd
Burning in flames beyond all measure:
--Three days endured your love to me,
And it was lost in other three!”

“Modern disillusion is unlikely to last forever, and nothing rings so hollow as the angst of yesterday.”

“Be the day short or be the day long, at last it weareth to evening song.”

“God preaches, a noted Clergyman —
And the sermon is never long,
So instead of getting to Heaven, at last—
I’m going, all along.”

“My heart has become as hard as a city street,
The horses trample upon it, it sings like iron,
All day long and all night long they beat,
They ring like the hooves of time.”

“From 'Anniversary Serenade'
The ring is closed. The rolling dice we cast
So long ago still roll, but not so fast.
The colours fade that we nailed to the mast.
We lose the future but we own the past.
We own the past?
From our first kiss, a lifetime to the last.”

“Never do hymns seem so long as in the days of childhood, never is their world and their language so alien to the soul. In old age the opposite is true, the hours are then too short for the hymns.”

“Life is not long at all, never long enough, but days are very long indeed.”