The presence of perpetual change
Is ever on the earth;
To-day is only as the soil
That gives to-morrow birth.


Ethel Churchill, or, The Two Brides (1837)


The presence of perpetual change Is ever on the earth; To-day is only as the soil That gives to-morrow birth.

The presence of perpetual change Is ever on the earth; To-day is only as the soil That gives to-morrow birth.

The presence of perpetual change Is ever on the earth; To-day is only as the soil That gives to-morrow birth.

The presence of perpetual change Is ever on the earth; To-day is only as the soil That gives to-morrow birth.