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Updated: July 6, 2025
How can I say what I mean! my soul looks straight out, and it finds you; but to find him it must look up to the heavens. You are a fresh rose-garland with which I crown myself he is a sacred persea-tree before which I bow."
His table was spread; the rose-garland of pleasure was woven for his head; his cup was overflowing with the spicy wine of power. The period of mourning for his father came at a fortunate moment to seclude and safeguard him from the storm of political troubles and persecutions that fell upon Antioch after the insults offered by the people to the imperial statues in the year 387.
How many things are still possible! So LEARN to laugh beyond yourselves! Lift up your hearts, ye good dancers, high! higher! And do not forget the good laughter! This crown of the laughter, this rose-garland crown: to you my brethren do I cast this crown! Laughing have I consecrated; ye higher men, LEARN, I pray you to laugh!
He stood still to listen, shook his old head, and muttering to himself: "Great God merciful and kind.... Thou alone canst know wherefore Thou hast set the rose-garland of life with so many sharp thorns," he went up to Agne who rose at his approach. "Why, my child," he said kindly, "what are you weeping for? Have you, too, lost some dear one killed in the fray?"
Who knows not how, in the "Lytell Geste of Robin Hood," they shot at "pluck-buffet," the king among them, disguised as an abbot; and every man who missed the rose-garland, "his tackle he should tyne"; "And bere a buffet on his head, Iwys ryght all bare, And all that fell on Robyn's lote, He smote them wonder sair. "Till Robyn fayled of the garlonde, Three fyngers and mair."
He stood still to listen, shook his old head, and muttering to himself: "Great God merciful and kind. . . . Thou alone canst know wherefore Thou hast set the rose-garland of life with so many sharp thorns," he went up to Agne who rose at his approach. "Why, my child," he said kindly, "what are you weeping for? Have you, too, lost some dear one killed in the fray?"
Lift up also your legs, ye good dancers, and better still, if ye stand upon your heads! This crown of the laughter, this rose-garland crown: I myself have put on this crown, I myself have consecrated my laughter. No one else have I found to-day potent enough for this.
But you shall be the rose-garland to grace me. Men who can be compared to flowers disgust me!" The prince rose, and offered Uarda his hand. "You have a strong hand," said the girl. "You will be a noble man, and work for good and great ends; only look, my fingers are quite red with being held so tightly. But they too are not quite useless.
He looked mutely round the soiled whitewashed walls, where hung a noble gathering of Blake portraits in massive old gilt frames. Among them he saw the remembered face of Lucy Corbin herself, painted under a rose-garland held by smiling Loves. "Life has its trials, of course, " pursued Mrs. Blake, as if speaking to herself.
But you shall be the rose-garland to grace me. Men who can be compared to flowers disgust me!" The prince rose, and offered Uarda his hand. "You have a strong hand," said the girl. "You will be a noble man, and work for good and great ends; only look, my fingers are quite red with being held so tightly. But they too are not quite useless.
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