Stand still, you floods, do not deface
That image which you bear:
So votaries, from every place,
To you shall altars rear.
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"On Sight Of A Gentlewoman's Face In The Water".Thomas Carew
To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you’re all alone and outnumbered and probably beaten; to spit on your hands and lower the pike; to stand fast over the body of Leonidas the King; to be rear guard at Kunu-Ri; to stand and be still to the Birkenhead Drill; these are not rational acts. They are often merely necessary.
Jerry Pournelle
To bear, to nurse, to rear,
To watch and then to lose,
To see my bright ones disappear,
Drawn up like morning dews.Jean Ingelow
We seek to know the moving of each sphere,
And the strange cause of th' ebbs and floods of Nile;
But of that clock within our breasts we bear,
The subtle motions we forget the while.John (poet) Davies
Place honey on the altars and die,
You lovers that are bitter at heart.Wallace Stevens
These stony altars they have hurled
Oppression back, have kept the boon
Of liberty. Behold, how free
The mountains stand, and eternally.Joaquin Miller
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