optaverunt

Updated: May 16, 2025

To them, who had already buried health, vitality and passion, was not this chant to the dead, this strange intoning of words, sweeter than the lullaby crooned by a nurse to a child, more stirring than the patriotic hymn to a soldier, and fraught with more fervor than the romantic dream of a lover? Ut indulgentiam, quam semper optaverunt

Frederic Stewart Isham - The Strollers