Hardly we find the path of love, to sink the self, forget the 'I,' When sad suspicion grips the heart, when Man, the Man begins to die:
More from Sir Richard Francis Burton
Friends of my youth, a last adieu! haply some day we meet again; Yet ne'er the self-same men shall meet; the years shall make us other men.
Permalink to quote #12 How Thought is imp'otent to divine the secret which the gods defend, The Why of birth and life and death, that Isis-veil no hand may rend. Eternal Morrows make…
Permalink to quote #14 The Translator has ventured to entitle a 'Lay of the Higher Law' the following composition, which aims at being in advance of its time; and he has not feared t…
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