Art

"The Savage State" by Thomas Cole

There is the moral of all human tales;  'Tis but the same rehearsal of the past.  First freedom and then Glory - when that fails,  Wealth, vice, corruption - barbarism at last.  And History, with all her volumes vast,  Hath but //one// page...  -Lord Byron //Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IV//

"Kindred Spirits" by Asher Durand 

//Yet the sweet converse of an innocent mind,// //Those words are images of thoughts refin'd,// //Is my soul's a pleasure; and sure it must be// //Almost the highest bliss of human-kind,// //When to thy haunts two kindred spirits flee.// //-John Keats "Sonnet to Solitude"//