Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode - Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles - Swinburne—Vol. III by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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464. _L'Art d'être Grandpère_, 1877. 470. _Le Pape_, 1878. 497. "Septidi ventôse an X de la République (26 février 1802)." _Victor Hugo raconté par un témoin de sa vie_, 1863, _tome_ 1, p. 28. At the end of such a list, so incomparable as to seem incredible, of one great man's good works, we may be forgiven the alteration of a word even in a verse from Æschylus which we cannot choose but apply once more to this leader in the advance of men made perfect through doom of trial and long wayfaring, whose progress he furthers by example and stimulates by song:-- [Greek: kurios esti throein hodion kratos aision andrôn ekteleôn; eti gar theothen katapneiei peithô molpan alkai sumphutos aiôn.] Æsch. _Agam._ 104-8. |
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