ThursdayNov 21, 2024
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But when shall spring visit the mouldering urn? Oh when shall it dawn on the night of the grave?
He thought as a sage, though he felt as a man.
Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.
And beauty immortal awakes from the tomb.
Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb The steep where Fame's proud temple shines afar?
Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain's murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave!
By the glare of false science betray'd, That leads to bewilder, and dazzles to blind.
Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with the thoughts of other men.
At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, When naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, And naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil, serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms.
Zealous, yet modest; innocent, though free; Patient of toil; serene amidst alarms; Inflexible in faith; invincible in arms.
From labor, health; from health, contentment springs.
No jealousy their dawn of love overcast, Nor blasted were their wedded days with strife; Each season looked delightful as it past, To the fond husband and the faithful wife.
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