“They saw their injured country's woe;
The flaming town, the wasted field;
Then rushed to meet the insulting foe;
They took the spear, - but left the shield.”
―Philip Freneau
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And by a prudent flight and cunning save A life which valour could not, from the grave. A better buckler I can soon regain, But who can get another life again?
Archilochus
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Tend Your Garden
Jean Huber, "Voltaire upon Waking at Ferney, Dictating to His Secretary Collini" (c. 1772)
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