Princes and lords, the shadow of a shade,A breath can make them, as a breath has made:But a bold peasantry, a nation’s pride,When once destroyed can never be supplied.
Princes and lords, the shadow of a shade,A breath can make them, as a breath has made:But a bold peasantry, a nation’s pride,When once destroyed can never be supplied.
Princes and lords, the shadow of a shade,A breath can make them, as a breath has made:But a bold peasantry, a nation’s pride,When once destroyed can never be supplied.
I hope he was wrong; but I sometimes have a horrible feeling that he may have been right.
But I have here, thank God, no cause for touching upon modern politics. I was educated, as much as my critic, in the belief that Whiggism was a pure deliverance; and I hope I am still as willing as he to respect Puritans for their individual virtue as well as for their individual genius. But it moves all my memories of the unmorality of the ’nineties to be charged with indifference to the importance of being earnest. And it is for the sake of English literature that I protest against the suggestion that we had no purity except Puritanism, or that only a man like the author of “Paradise Lost” could manage to be on the side of the angels.
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On Peace Day I set up outside my house two torches, and twined them with laurel; because I thought at least there was nothing pacifist about laurel. But that night, after the bonfire and the fireworks had faded, a wind grew and blew with gathering violence, blowing away the rain. And in the morning I found one of the laurelled posts torn off and lying at random on the rainy ground; while the other still stood erect, green and glittering in the sun. I thought that the pagans would certainly have called it an omen; and it was one that strangely fitted my own sense of some great work half fulfilled and half frustrated. And I thought vaguely of that man in Virgil, who prayed that he might slay his foe and return to his country; and the gods heard half the prayer, and the other half was scattered to the winds.For I knew we were right to rejoice; since the tyrant was indeed slain and his tyranny fallen for ever; but I know not when we shall find our way back to our own land.
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