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Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherish'd thine image for years;
Thou hast taught read more
Thou hast wounded the spirit that loved thee
And cherish'd thine image for years;
Thou hast taught me at last to forget thee,
In secret, in silence, and tears.
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting
his former wound resumes his arms.
[Lat., Saucius ejurat read more
The wounded gladiator forswears all fighting, but soon forgetting
his former wound resumes his arms.
[Lat., Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem
Immemor antiqui vulneris arma capit.]
The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.
[Fr., La blessure est pour vous, la douleur read more
The wound is for you, but the pain is for me.
[Fr., La blessure est pour vous, la douleur est pour moi.]
H' had got a hurt
O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.
H' had got a hurt
O' th' inside of a deadlier sort.
Safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head,
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Safe in a ditch he bides,
With twenty trenched gashes on his head,
The least a death to nature.
How he in peace is wounded, not in war.
How he in peace is wounded, not in war.
I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
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I tell you that which you yourselves do know,
Show you sweet Caesar's wounds, poor poor dumb mouths,
And bid them speak for me.
The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst,
'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst,
'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.
He jests at scars that never felt a wound.