368 HOLIDAYS HOLINESS
Die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltgericht.
The world's history is the world's judgment.
Der Historiker ist ein riickwarts gekehrter
Prophet.
The historian is a prophet looking backwards.
Praecipium munus annalium reor, ne virtutes
sileantur, utque pravis dictis, factisque ex posteritate et infamia metus sit.
The principal office of history I take to be
this: to prevent virtuous actions from being
forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should
fear an infamous reputation with posterity.
L'histoire n'est que le tableau des crimes et des malheurs.
History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.
Oh do not read history, for that I know must be false.
Those old credulities, to nature dear,
Shall they no longer bloom upon the stock
Of History.
Wordsworth—Memorials of a Tour in Italy.
IV. At Rome.
HOLIDAYS
The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epoch in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward forevermore.
There were his young barbarians all at play
There was their Dacian mother 1—he, their sire,
Butcher'd to make a Roman holiday.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto IV. St. 141.
And that was the way
The deuce was to pay
As it always is, at the close of the day
That gave us—
Hurray! Hurray! Hurray!
(With some restrictions, the fault-finders say)
That which, please God, we will keep for aye
Our National Independence!
Will Carleton—How We Kept the Day.
The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows;—
The happy days unclouded to their close;
The sudden joys that out of darkness start
As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart
Like swallows singing down each wind that
blows!
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| text = <poem>If all the year were playing holidays,
To sport would be as tedious as to work.
Henry IV. Pt. I. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 228.
Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut.
You sunburnt sicklemen, of August weary,
Come hither from the furrow and be merry:
Make holiday; your rye-straw hats put on
And these fresh nymphs encounter every one
In country footing.
Tempest. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 134.
Time for work,—yet take
Much holiday for art's and friendship's sake.
George James de Wilde—Sonnet. On the Arrival of Spring.
HOLINESS
Might make a saintship of an anchorite.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto I. St. 11.
Where'er we tread 'tis haunted, holy ground.
Byron—Childe Harold. Canto H. St. 88.
ig God attributes to place
No sanctity, if none be thither brought
By men who there frequent.
Milton—Paradise Lost.
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Whoso lives the holiest life
Is fittest far to die.
Margaret J. Preston—Ready.
But all his mind is bent to holiness,
To number Ave-Maries on his beads;
His champions are the prophets and apostles,
His weapons holy saw of sacred writ,
His study is his tilt-yard, and his loves
Are brazen images of canonized saints.
Henry VI. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 58.
He who the sword of heaven will bear
Should be as holy as severe;
Pattern in himself to know,
Grace to stand, and virtue go;
More or less to others paying
Than by self-offences weighing.
Shame to him whose cruel striking
Kills for faults of his own liking!
