Isaac McLellan Quotes

• On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.

  Isaac McLellan

  Change, Looks, Decay

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.22

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• Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.

  Isaac McLellan

  Nature, Cups, Enchanted

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.27

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• E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower,
  That Time upon her angel brow should set
  His crooked autograph, and mar the jet
  Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green,
  The hoar frost and the canker worm destroy.
  Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.

  Isaac McLellan

  Time, Eye, Angel

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.25

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• Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.

  Isaac McLellan

  Time, Flying, Wheels

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23

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• The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.

  Isaac McLellan

  Life, Pearls, Rich

  Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23

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