If you get simple beauty and naught else, You get about the best thing God invents.

More from Men and Women, "Fra Lippo Lippi"

• Take away love, and our earth is a tomb!
• Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
• A minute’s success pays the failure of years.
• Autumn wins you best by this its mute Appeal to sympathy for its decay.
• Brightest truth, purest trust in the universe, — all were for me
• Deeds let escape are never to be done.