Arthur Cleveland Coxe

To be free is the birthright of man.

Arthur Cleveland Coxe (May 10, 1818 – July 20, 1896) was the second Episcopal bishop of Western New York. He used Cleveland as his given name and is often cited as A. Cleveland Coxe.

Quotes

Flowers are words which even a babe may understand.

• And so we shake
  The snowy flake
     From cedar and myrtle fair;
  And the boughs that nod
  On the hills of God,
     We raise to his glory there.
  • "Carol" (Air—"The Brave Old Oak"), st. 2
  • Christian Ballads (New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1840), p. 82

• 'Tis the night—the night
  Of the grave's delight,
     And the warlocks are at their play!
  Ye think that without,
  The wild winds shout,
     But no, it is they—it is they!
  • Halloween: A Romaunt, &c. (Hartford: H. S. Parsons, 1845), st. 7

• 'Twas the blood of the Saxon within them that ran;
  They held—to be free is the birthright of man.
  • The Ladye Chace: A Ballad (New York: Lippincott & Co., 1876), proeme, pt. 1, st. 9

•    The singing of birds,
     A warbling band,
     And flowers, are words
  Which even a babe may understand.
  • "The Winter is over and gone at Last", st. 2. Frank Foxcroft (ed.) Resurgit: A Collection of Hymns and Songs of the Resurrection (Boston: Lee and Shepard; New York: Charles T. Dillingham, 1879), p. 323. Often paraphrased: "Flowers are words which even a baby can understand."