5/10 And oft you kings do snatch the aloe-flower, whose slow blossoming mankind watches for a hundred years .-- Say on, my lord." "All this I know; and, therefore, rest content. My children's children will be kings; though, haply, called by other titles. Mardi grows fastidious in names: we royalties will humor it. The steers would burst their yokes, but have not hands. The whole herd rears and plunges, but soon will bow again: the old, old way!" "Yet, in Porpheero, strong scepters have been wrested from anointed hands. |