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Henry Glassford Bell Quotes

1803–1874 Scotland

Henry Glassford Bell (5 November 1803 – 7 January 1874) was a Scottish lawyer, poet and historian.

Scotland
Poets

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The blood of beauty, wealth, and power—the heart-blood of a queen,
The noblest of the Stuart race—the fairest earth has seen,—
Lapped by a dog! Go think of it, in silence and alone,
Then weigh against a grain of sand the glories of a throne!

Her neck is bared—the blow is struck—the soul has pass'd away;
The bright—the beautiful—is now a bleeding piece of clay!—
A solemn text! Go, think of it, in silence and alone,
Then weigh against a grain of sand the glories of a throne!

Summer and Winter Hours (1831)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Glassford Bell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.