Man was made to Mourn.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“November’s sky is chill and drear,
November’s leaf is red and sear.”
Canto I, introduction, st. 1.
Marmion (1808)
Source: The Induction (1563), Line 1, p. 309
“Not that the earth doth yield
In hill or dale, in forest or in field,
A rarer plant.”
First Week, Third Day. Compare: "Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields", Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
Source: Something Wicked This Way Comes (1962), Chapter 38
"The Novices" (1960)
Context: To leave the open fields
and enter the forest, that was the rite.
Knowing there was mystery, they could go.
Go back now! And he receded among the multitude of forms, the twists and shadows they saw now, listening to the hum of the world's wood.
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, The Dragonbone Chair (1988), Chapter 16, “The White Arrow” (p. 238).
“When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past—”
The First Kiss of Love http://readytogoebooks.com/LB-FKL44.html, st. 7 (1806).
Context: When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past—
For years fleet away with the wings of the dove—
The dearest remembrance will still be the last,
Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
Source: Maria Chapdelaine (1913), Ch. 1, p. 4
Source: Memory, Sorrow, and Thorn, To Green Angel Tower (1993), Part 1, Chapter 8, “Nights of Fire” (p. 255).
