And sadly we ask, as we count our ills,

“What pitiful, pestilent folly ailed us?

Why did we ride at the pace that kills?”

W. J. Prowse.


Cato said ‘he had rather people should inquire why he had not a statue erected to his memory, than why he had.’

Plutarch (Political Precepts).


CHAMOUNI AND RYDAL.

I stood one shining morning, where