Quote#Education
Tho' the world could turn from you
Quote byRobert Williams Buchanan · 1841–1901
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Undertones (1883), "To David in Heaven", St. 14..
English (original)
Tho' the world could turn from you, This, at least, I learn from you: Beauty and Truth, tho' never found, are worthy to be sought, The singer, upward-springing, Is grander than his singing, And tranquil self-sufficing joy illumes the dark of thought. This, at least, you teach me, In a revelation: That gods still snatch, as worthy death, the soul in its aspiration.
— Robert Williams Buchanan
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I ask no more from mortals Than your beautiful face implies,— The beauty the artist beholding Interprets and sanctifies. Who says that men have fallen, That life is wretched and rough?
Even on the white English crags A few strong spirits, in a race that binds Its body in chains and calls them Liberty, And calls each fresh link Progress, stood erect With faces pale that hunger'd to the light.
I saw the starry Tree Eternity Put forth the blossom Time.
Full of a sweet indifference.
Believing hath a core of unbelieving.
Their hearts and sentiments were free, their appetites were hearty.