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O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
The simple manners and the deed sublime:
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O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
The simple manners and the deed sublime:
When the wise Wanderer, often foiled by Fate,
Through the long furrow drave the ploughshare straight.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?
We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished- for state. When did history become a bad word?
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
No traces left of all the busy scene,
But that remembrances says: The things have been.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
