 TERMINUS. IT is time to be old, To take in sail : — The god of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said : ' No more ! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.  The Stoddard Library: Eliot-Gladstone - Page 55by John Lawson Stoddard - 1913Full view - About this book
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...been so moved by in John Kelly. Terminus, appropriately, is the Roman god of boundaries and landmarks: It is time to be old, To take in sail: The god of...Came to me in his fatal rounds, And said, 'No more!' As the bird trims her to the gale, I trimmed myself to the storm of time, I man the rudder, reef the... | |
 | Renée Rose Shield, Stanley M. Aronson - Social Science - 2003 - 264 pages
...acutely aware of their diminishing creativity. Emerson at age sixty-five declared: "It is time to be old. The god of bounds who sets to seas a shore, came to me in his fatal rounds and said: no more!" And Melville, in a letter to Hawthorne, acknowledged that his output was nearing exhaustion. He wrote:... | |
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...understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW AMERICAN (1807-1882) Terminus It is time to be old, To take in sail: —...in his fatal rounds, And said: 'No more! No farther spread Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root. Fancy departs: no more invent, Contract thy firmament... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - Biography & Autobiography - 2004 - 457 pages
...passage from it has been quoted for a particular purpose, but here is the whole poem: — TEBMfflU8. It is time to be old, To take in sail: — The god...of bounds, Who sets to seas a shore, Came to me in Ms fatal rounds, And said : " No more! No farther shoot Thy broad ambitious branches, and thy root.... | |
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