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the distant seas, and when to house "England became a nest to sing
birds", with Shakespeare, Spenser, Fletcher and Marlow. "The sober old man
notions of economy", it says the picturesque historian, "it melted first the
strange revolutions of the fortune beaten by the New World. Gentlemen
played away of hazard a fortune to a session, and it sailed away for making a coolness
in Indies." (Reads rather to-day to Kimberley, Johannesburg,
Vancouver.) "Visions of galleons loaded to the edge with pearls and
diamonds and silver ingots, dreams of El Dorados where of everybody were
gold, threw a haze of the prodigality and profusion on the imagination of
the sailor of meanest. The also, wonders some New World it made to turn on a burst
of eccentric desire in the Old one. The strange mixture of past and present
what it only distinguishes his/her masques and feastings they reflected the mixture
of the thoughts of men.... A 'wild man' from Indies the Regina sang psalms
you praise to Kenilworth, and Echo responded him. Elizabeth turned from the
regards of sibyls and giants to deliver the lady enchanted by her
tyrant, 'Sans Pitie.' Shepherdesses gave her the welcome one with carols of the
spring, while Ceres and Bacchus poured their corn and grape of grape to her
feet." Oh, gilded youth of the Cheerfulness, _mutato nominations de you Fabula
narratur_. The Your, the Your is this glory!
For ours own age, an according to Elizabethan is also. It blooms out daily
in such flowers of desire how come it bloomed before, safe then, on
English dirty. When men tell him today we don't have "great writers
left", doesn't believe the to whine of foolish parrot. No, rather, gives back down to it for
them. We move there in the mean of one of the earth of mightier epochs it ever has
seen, an epoch that he/she will live in expectancy in history side side with
the Athens of Pericles, the Rome of Augustus, Lawrence's Florence,
Elizabeth's England. You don't throw away Your birthright ignoring
the fact. Long live above to Your rights. You look fixed around You and knows. Both a