George Curtis
George Curtis
book culture experience inviting laid national recorded sneer state sure wisdom
The sure foundations of the state are laid in knowledge, not in ignorance; and every sneer at education, at culture, at book learning, which is the recorded wisdom of the experience of mankind, is the demagogue's sneer at intelligent liberty, inviting national degeneracy and ruin.
along beside dream dreamed evening sea shore walked waves
I walked beside the evening sea and dreamed a dream that could not be; the waves that plunged along the shore said only: "Dreamer, dream no more!
beats hearts listen shall sound wild
O listen to the sounding seaThat beats on the remorseless shore,O listen! for that sound will beWhen our wild hearts shall beat no more.
beats hearts listen sea shall sound wild
O listen to the sounding sea That beats on the remorseless shore, O listen! for that sound will be When our wild hearts shall beat no more.