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PEACE NOT PERMANENT

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Great cities seldom rest; if there be none
T' invade from far, they'll find worse foes at home.




Quotes of the Day

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.
• Galileo Galilei


Poems of the Day
  • Henry van Dyke
    Master of Music
    by Henry van Dyke
    Glory of architect, glory of painter, and sculptor, and bard, Living forever in temple and picture and statue and song, -- Look how the world with the lights that they lit is illumined and starred,