Thou art bound hastily for the City of Nowhere; and wilt arrive!
Carlyle (French Revolution).
It is interesting to learn from a correspondent of The Spectator (Feb. 17, 1917) that Carlyle wrote two verses which he combined with Shakespeare’s “Fear no more the heat o’ the sun” (Cymbeline iv, 2) to make a requiem, of which he was very fond:
Fear no more the heat o’ the sun,
Nor the furious winter’s rages;
Thou thy worldly task hast done,
Home art gone, and ta’en thy wages.
Hurts thee now no harsh behest,
Toil, or shame, or sin, or danger;