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The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
The past is past and only a better Future can change that...
Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
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Listen to the Water-Mill:
Through the live-long day
How the clicking of its wheel
Wears the hours away!
Languidly the Autumn wind
Stirs the forest leaves,
From the field the reapers sing
Binding up their sheaves:
And a proverb haunts my mind
As a spell is cast,
"The mill cannot grind
With the water that is past."
The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
You have to know the past to understand the present.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Study the past if you would divine the future.
