But have you wine and music still, And statues and a bright-eyed love, And foolish thoughts of good and ill, And prayers to them who sit above?
James Elroy Flecker
Source: Wikipedia
We men of this age are rotten with book-lore and with a yearning for the past. The Last Generation
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When the great markets by the sea shut fast All that calm Sunday that goes on and on: When even lovers find their peace at last, And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.
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And some to Meccah turn to pray, and I toward thy bed, Yasmin.
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