QUOTATION WANTED
Sir,-I notice that someone is asking for forgotten lines and wondered if you could help me in the same way. I Idéve The Listener not merely for the programmes, as living here we often wait a month for our mail; but I look forward to the articles and comments and enjoy it all. Now these are the lines I am trying to find, and who wrote them. I do not like asking, as you must have your time fully occupied, but seeing the other request I took courage. "Grieving if aught iriaminate ever grieves over the unreturning dead. " Hoping you can oblige.
G. J.
AMBROSE
(Great Mercury Island).
Childe Harold: The lines are from this passage in Byron’s XXVII Canto III And Ardennes waves above them her green leaves, Dewy with nature’s teardrops, as they pass. Grieving, if aught inanimate e’er grieves Over the unreturning brave-alas! Ere evening to be trodden like the grass Which now beneath them, but above shall grow In its next verdure when this fie span Of living Valour, rolling on the . And burning with high hope; shall moulder cold and low. XXVIII Last. noon beheld them full of lusty life, Last eve in Beauty’s circle’ proudly gay, The midnight brought the signal-sound of strife, The morn the marshalling in arms-the day Battle’s magnificently stern array! The thunder-clouds o’er it, which when rent The earth is covered thick with other clay Which her own clay shall cover, heaped and pent, Rider and horse, friend, foe-in one red burial blent!
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 365, 21 June 1946, Page 5
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255QUOTATION WANTED New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 365, 21 June 1946, Page 5
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