Eliza Cook — English Poet born on December 24, 1818, died on September 23, 1889

Eliza Cook was an English author and poet associated with the Chartist movement. She was a proponent of political freedom for women, and believed in the ideology of self-improvement through education, something she called "levelling up." This made her hugely popular with the working class public in both England and America... (wikipedia)

Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Who would not rather trust and be deceived?
There's a magical tie to the land of our home, which the heart cannot break, though the footsteps may roam.
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
Though language forms the preacher, 'Tis good works make the man.