It was created to transfer into the visible reality of the world the mystery bidden since time immemorial in God, and thus be a sign of it. (firstthings.com)
«I heard the ripple washing in the reeds / And the wild water lapping on the crag»; ``... the moan of doves in immemorial elms / And murmuring of innumerable bees.» (slaw.ca)
In them is the authentic note, later to come to full expression, that in the nascent American democracy was the solvent for man's immemorial problems, the answer to his whole dream of freedom and worth: (religion-online.org)