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Updated: June 4, 2025
Unlike the proud boast of the Roman poet, if he spoke it in earnest, “Exegi monumentum ære perennius,” he did but indulge the hope that one, whose coming had been expected with pleasure, might excite regret when he had departed, and be rewarded by the sympathy and praise of his friends even in the presence of other minstrels.
His only monument in the island is one, after all, 'aere perennius; namely, that most beautiful flowering shrub which bears his name; Warsewiczia, some call it; others, Calycophyllum: but the botanists of the island continue loyally the name of Chaconia to those blazing crimson spikes which every Christmas-tide renew throughout the wild forests, of which he would have made a civilised garden, the memory of the last and best of the Spanish Governors.
I'm not one of your modern philosophers explain everything with ether and atoms. Evolution. Rubbish like that. What I mean is something the 'Ologies don't include. Matter of reason not understanding. Ripe wisdom. Human nature. Aere perennius. ... Call it what you will." And so at last it came to the last time. The Vicar had no intimation of what lay so close upon him.
What difference has it made? "We are out of it all," said the Vicar. "We live in an atmosphere of simple and permanent things, Birth and Toil, simple seed-time and simple harvest. The Uproar passes us by." He was always very great upon what he called the permanent things. "Things change," he would say, "but Humanity aere perennius." Thus the Vicar. He loved a classical quotation subtly misapplied.
My statuettes are as durable as bronze aere perennius, signore and, between ourselves, I think they are more amusing!" As I pocketed his card I glanced at Madonna Serafina, wondering whether she had an eye for contrasts. She had picked up one of the little couples and was tenderly dusting it with a feather broom.
Of course, such a book has not been the work of a day, month, or, perhaps, a year; and its literature entitles it to a permanent place in the library, where we hope to see it stand auro perennius; were its fate to be otherwise, we should condemn the public for we hate ingratitude in every shape and write in the first page the epitaph For, O, for, O, the hobby-horse is forgot.
Te leave a monument behind, aere perennius, an imperishable work which might stir the thoughts, the feelings, the dreams of men, generation after generation this is the only glory which I could wish for, if I were not weaned even from this wish also. A book would be my ambition, if ambition were not vanity and vanity of vanities. August 11, 1877.
Posthumous Fame is losing its attractiveness in an age which has discovered excellent reasons for doubting whether after all aere perennius was not rather too strong a figure. However powerful the impulse to think, to state and create, there comes a point often a point a long way from starvation at which a genius will stop working.
In the streets of Athens a singular spectacle was exhibited; there might be seen the conqueror learning of the vanquished; Romans, of exalted rank and unbounded power, had become the disciples of Grecian philosophers. Nevertheless, when Rome possessed orators and poets, each of whom has raised "Monumentum aere perennius,"
Horace spoke out of the abundance of his heart, and tells you precisely what he is, as frankly as Montaigne. Trust him in such words; he absolutely means them; knows thoroughly that he cannot sail the Tyrrhene Sea, knows that he cannot float on the winds of Matinum, can only murmur in the sunny hollows of it among the heath. But note, secondly, his pride: "Exegi monumentum sere perennius."
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