THE LOTUS EATERS. Dear is the memory of our wedded lives, And their warm tears, but all hath suffered change TENNYSON. IDEM GRAECE. Τῶν δ ̓ ὅστις λωτοῖο φάγοι μελιηδέα καρπόν, Καὶ δὴ φιλοῦμεν νυμφίου μνείαν λέχους, E. N. GARDINER. PUBLIC DUTIES. The single and peculiar life is bound To whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things Attends the boisterous ruin; never alone Did the king sigh, but with a general groan. SHAKESPEARE. IDEM GRAECE. Ὁ μὲν καθ ̓ αὑτὸν ἴδιος ἐξάγων βίον H. L. CALLENDAR. DEATH SPEAKETH TO SIN. Whom thus the meagre shadow answered soon. The savour of death from all things there that live : Be wanting, but afford thee equal aid.' So saying, with delight he snuffed the smell Of mortal change on earth. As when a flock MILTON, P. L. x. 264. |