“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
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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