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You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the read more
You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.
O, to bring back the great Homeric time,
The simple manners and the deed sublime:
When the read more
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.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
The light of other days is faded,
And all their glories past.
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
