[BNP/E3, 14E – 43]
Cesário Verde.
O seu habitus interior de inibitivo faz com que admire os ingleses. Nisto compare-se com o homem que, conquanto grandemente diverso, foi também uma influência de sobriedade na poesia, Alfred de Vigny. “Ce qui fait la force et l’unité de cette nation, c’est que chaque homme s’y regarde comme un homme politique: chaque citoyen parle et agit dans le sens de la politique anglaise du moment.” (Journal |pQ|) – (V. Servitude et Grandeur Militaires p. 290).
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H. R.
Doctors
My heart weeps in me like a child,
A little child but motherless
Their {…}
The couchant nature of despair.
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Together with disseverance for proof
And care that † on {…} |*begets|.
What if we were to have no higher ends
Than glory glory’s an end, and
Which in the worth is though no more pretends
|To goodness the gold for being bringing gold.|
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10/XII/1913