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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were.
The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
The days of rejoicing are gone forever.
[Fr., Ils sont passes ces jours de fete.]
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.
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.
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
The past always looks better than it was; it's only pleasant because it isn't here.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Look back, and smile on perils past.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
O God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.
