And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, June 5, 2024
For my purpose holds. To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths of all the western stars, until I die.
From "Ulysses" by Alfred Lord Tennyson which is a great poem for Real Men.---ken
ReplyDeleteRomance drips from the verse and canvas; agree with coyoteken48 about greatness.
ReplyDeleteWonderful illustration, marred only by the horned helmet of the Viking on the prow of the ship. Historically inaccurate.
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