Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Glory built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit read more

True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of read more

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

Glory paid to our ashes comes too late

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

For glory gives herself only to those who have always dreamed of her.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

The glory dies not, and the grief is past.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.

To the ashes of the dead glory comes too late.