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

by Unknown

Ode at the Harvard Commemoration, July 21, 1865.

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Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

The Cathedral.

The one thing finished in this hasty world.

The Cathedral.

These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred,

Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;

The diver Omar plucked them from their bed,

Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.