Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
NUMBER: | 915 |
AUTHOR: | George Meredith (18281909) |
QUOTATION: | We who have seen Italia in the throes, Half risen but to be hurled to ground, and now, Like a ripe field of wheat where once drove plough, All bounteous as she is fair, we think of those Who blew the breath of life into her frame: Cavour, Mazzini, Garibaldi: Three: Her Brain, her Soul, her Sword; and set her free From ruinous discords, with one lustrous aim. |
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SUBJECTS: | Italy |