The pure, the beautiful, the bright,
That stirred our hearts in youth,
The impulse to a wordless prayer,
The dreams of love and truth,
The longings after something lost,
The spirit's yearning cry,
The strivings after better hopes,—
These things can never die.

Poem: Things that never die, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).