![]() He who grown aged in this world of woe,.Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail. Once more upon the waters, yet once more!Īnd the waves bound beneath me as a steedįlung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail.Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart.To view each loved one blotted from life's page, What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? What is the worst of woes that wait on age?.Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon.Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground.A thousand years scarce serve to form a state:.DuBois as the epigraph for Chapter 3 of The Souls of Black Folk. Used (along with the quote from Stanza 74) by W.E.B. Who would free themselves must strike the blow. From birth till death enslaved in word, in deed, unmanned!. ![]() Immortal, though no more though fallen, great! Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth!.Coop'd in their winged, sea-girt citadel.With none who bless us, none whom we can bless. To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess,Īnd roam along, the world's tired denizen, But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men,.None are so desolate but something dear,Ī thought, and claims the homage of a tear.Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?. ![]() Compare: "And keeps the palace of the soul", Edmund Waller, Of Tea. The dome of thought, the palace of the soul.Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!.Gone - glimmering through the dream of things that were."War even to the knife" was the reply of Palafox, the governor of Saragossa, when summoned to surrender by the French, who besieged that city in 1808. War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife!". ![]() Compare: "Medio de fonte leporum / Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat" (translated: "In the midst of the fountain of wit there arises something bitter, which stings in the very flowers", Lucretius, iv. Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings.
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