- * * as that dishonest victory
At Chaeronea, fatal to liberty,
Killed with report that old man eloquent,
[Isocrates, the celebrated orator of Greece.]
In an easy cause any man may be eloquent.
Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts.
Pour the full tide of eloquence along,
Serenely pure, and yet divinely strong.
A man in all the world's new fashion planted,
That hath a mint of phrases in his brain.
That aged ears play truant at his tales
And younger hearings are quite ravished;
So sweet and voluble is his discourse.
Every tongue that speaks
But Romeo's name speaks heavenly eloquence.
Say she be mute and will not speak a word;
Then I'll commend her volubility,
And say she uttereth piercing eloquence.
[Eloquence] the mistress of all the arts.
It is the eloquence as of a flame; it requires matter to feed it, motion to excite it, and it brightens as it burns.
But while listening Senates hang upon thy
tongue,
Devolving through the maze of eloquence
A roll of periods, sweeter than her song.
But to a higher mark than song can reach,
Rose this pure eloquence.
EMIGRATION
Down where yon anch'ring vessel spreads the sail,
That, idly waiting, flaps with every gale,
Downward they move, a melancholy band,
Pass from the shore and darken all the strand.
Beheld the duteous son, the sire decayed,
The modest matron, and the blushing maid,
Forc'd from their homes, a melancholy train,
To traverse climes beyond the Western main.
From the Shannon, from the Scheldt, From the ancient homes of genius, From the sainted home of Celt, From Italy, from Hungary, All as brothers join and come, To the sinew-bracing bugle, And the foot-propelling drum; Too proud beneath the starry flag to die, and keep secure The liberty they dreamed of by the Danube, Elbe, and Suir. </poem>
At the gate of the West I stand,
On the isle where the nations throng.
We call them "scum o' the earth."
Exilioque domos et dulcia limina mutant
Atque alio patriam quaerunt sub sole jacentem.
And for exile they change their homes and
pleasant thresholds, and seek a country lying
beneath another sun.
END, THE
(See also Results)
Whatsoever thou takest in hand, remember
the end, and thou shalt never do amiss.
Have regard to the end.
If the end be well, all will be well.
