"Undefaced" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dust; Ilion is consumed with rust; All the galleons of Greece Drink the ocean's dreamless peace; Lost was Solomon's purple show Restless centuries ago; Stately empires wax and wane— Babylon, Barbary, and Spain;— Only one thing, undefaced, Lasts, though all the worlds lie waste And the heavens are overturned. —Dear, how ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 2 (of 4) • Various |
