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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 682 |
| AUTHOR: | Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) |
| QUOTATION: | For no one, in our long decline, So dusty, spiteful and divided, Had quite such pleasant friends as mine, Or loved them half as much as I did. [stanza 3] The library was most inviting: The books upon the crowded shelves Were mainly of our private writing: We kept a school and taught ourselves. [stanza 15] From quiet homes and first beginning, Out to the undiscovered ends, There’s nothing worth the wear of winning, But laughter and the love of friends. [stanza 22] You do retain the song we set, And how it rises, trips and scans? You keep the sacred memory yet, Republicans? Republicans? [stanza 36] |
| ATTRIBUTION: | HILAIRE BELLOC, “Dedicatory Ode,” Sonnets and Verse, pp. 70, 73, 74, 76 (1923). Republicans was the name of the friends’ club |
| SUBJECTS: | Friendship |
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