The Teutons have been singing the swan song ever since they entered the ranks of history. They have always confounded truth with d...eath.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Old age cannot be cured. An epoch or a civilization cannot be prevented from breathing its last. A natural process that happens to... all flesh and all human manifestations cannot be arrested. You can only wring your hands and utter a beautiful swan song.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The reason is: rats leave the sinking ship... but we . . . we . . . didn't leave, so the ship didn't sink, and that's madness, Lear's song that's Touchstone's forest jest, that's swan of Avon logic.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the swan must fix his eye Upon a fading gleam,... Float out upon a long Last reach of glittering stream And there sing his last song.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To you, God the Singer, our voices we raise, to you Song Incarnate, we give all our praise,... to you, Holy Spirit, our life and our breath, be glory for ever, through life and through death.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
By measure. It was word and note, The wind the wind had meant to be... A little through the lips and throat. The aim was song the wind could see.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »