Monday, April 12, 2010

Amelioration And The Future, Man's Noble Tasks Comments

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Fall, fall, ye mighty temples to the ground:
Not in your sculptured rise
Is the real exercise
Of human nature's brightest power found.
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Letitia Elizabeth Landon
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Peter Bolton 23 June 2015

In this posthumous truncation of the poem, the location of the temples is not thought of importance. However, the message still stands: acts of generosity and kindness are worth more than the greatest monuments of man.

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Peter Bolton 13 June 2015

These are the last three verse of 'Hindoo and Mahommedan buildings' from Fisher's Drawing Room Scrap Book,1835. History hath but few pages—soon is told Man's ordinary life, Labour, and care, and strife, Make up the constant chronicle of old.

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