Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

by Unknown

The world's great age begins anew,

The golden years return,

The earth doth like a snake renew

Her winter weeds outworn.

Hellas. Line 1060.

What! alive, and so bold, O earth?

Written on hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon.

All love is sweet,

Given or returned. Common as light is love,

And its familiar voice wearies not ever.