Cities and Thrones and Powers
Stand in Time’s eye,
Almost as long as flowers,
Which daily die.
But, as new buds put forth
To glad new men,
Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth
The Cities rise again.
This season’s Daffodil,
She never hears
What change, what chance, what chill,
Cut down last year’s:
But with bold countenance,
And knowledge small,
Esteems her seven days’ continuance
To be perpetual.
So […]

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“Without a horse and a dog, and a friend, man would perish. The Gods gave me all three, and there is no gift like friendship. Remember this”—Parnesius turned to Dan—”when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make.”
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“Believe me,” Parnesius turned again to Dan, “a […]

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He who makes himself Emperor anywhere must know everything, everywhere.

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From Puck of Pook’s Hill:
“…the People are tenfold more cruel than Kings….Better one King than a thousand butchers.

These ideas remind me of Søren Kierkegaard as portrayed in A Third Testament.
The author of this book, Malcolm Muggeridge, says on page 80,
The divine right of kings had been abolished, but the divine right of the […]

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LAND of our Birth, we pledge to thee
Our love and toil in the years to be;
When we are grown and take our place,
As men and women with our race.
Father in Heaven who lovest all.
Oh help Thy children when they call;
That they may build from age to age,
An undefiled heritage.
Teach us to bear the yoke […]

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Howso great man’s strength be reckoned,
There are two things he cannot flee;
Love is the first, and Death is the second—
And Love, in England, hath taken me!

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