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The Old Guard

Arthur Rimbaud

To the emperor's peasants!
To the peasants' emperor!
To the sons of mars,
to the glorious 18 March!
When heaven blessed
the guts of Eugene!




Quotes of the Day

It vexes me when they would constrain science by the authority of the Scriptures, and yet do not consider themselves bound to answer reason and experiment.
• Galileo Galilei


Poems of the Day
  • John Lars Zwerenz
    Nostalgia
    by John Lars Zwerenz
    When the purple drapes of the nascent night Cover the veils of the mountainous greenery, I wander amid the fountains and the statuary, Lost in reflective pools of light.