The rose looks out in the valley,
And thither will I go,
To the rosy vale, where the nightingale
Sings his song of woe.
—Under the linden,
On the meadow,
Where our bed arranged was,
There now you may find e'en
In the shadow
Broken flowers and crushed grass.
—Near the woods, down in the vale,
Tandaradi!
Sweetly sang the nightingale.
Last night the nightingale woke me,
Last night, when all was still.
It sang in the golden moonlight,
From out the woodland hill.
NILE
It flows through old hushed Egypt and its sands,
Like some grave mighty thought threading a
dream.
Son of the old moon-mountains African!
Stream of the Pyramid and Crocodile!
We call thee fruitful, and that very while
A desert fills our seeing's inward span.
The Nile, forever new and old,
Among the living and the dead,
Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.
The higher Nilus swells,
The more it promises; as it ebbs, the seedsman
Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain,
And shortly comes the harvest.
Whose tongue
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile.
O'er Egypt's land of memory floods are level,
And they are thine, O Nile! and well thou knowest
The soul-sustaining airs and blasts of evil,
And fruits, and poisons spring where'er thou flowest.
Mysterious Flood,—that through the silent sands
Hast wandered, century on century,
Watering the length of great Egyptian lands,
Which were not, but for thee.
NOBILITY
If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.
Inquinat egregios adjuncta superbia mores.
The noblest character is stained by the
addition of pride.
Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven;
This is the porcelain clay of human kind,
And therefore cast into these noble moulds.
O lady, nobility is thine, and thy form is the
reflection of thy nature! '
There are epidemics of nobleness as well as
epidemics of disease.
Ein edler Mensch zieht edle Menschen an,
Und weiss sie fest zu halten, wie ihr thut.
A noble soul alone can noble souls attract;
And knows alone, as ye, to hold them.
II sangue nobile e un accidente della fortuna; le azioni nobili caratterizzano il grande.
Noble blood is an accident of fortune;
noble actions characterize the great.
Par nobile fratrum.
A noble pair of brothers.
Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
In proud display; yet take this truth from me—
Virtue alone is true nobility!
Noblesse oblige.
There are obligations to nobility.
Be noble in every thought
And in every deed!
Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
