CONTENTS
Helen Waddell\'s The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages [1927]
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Author: Hrabanus Maurus [9th cent.],
Year: n.a.
Nullum opus exsurgit quod non annosa vetustas
expugnet, quod non vertat iniqua dies.
Grammata sola carent fato, mortemque repellunt,
praeterita renovant, grammata sola biblis.
- Carm. xxi
No work of men's hands, but the weary years
Besiege and take it; comes its evil day.
The written word alone flouts destiny,
Revives the past, and gives the lie to death
Dum loquimur, seges alta viret, maturiet, aret,
canescunt violae, lilia fusca cadunt.
- Carm. xxxvii
Violets whiten, lilies darken;
Even while we speak, the grass
Springs up, ripens, withereth.
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