Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.
And 'while the world runs round and round,' I said, 'Reign thou apart, a quiet king, Still as, while Saturn whirls, his steadfast shade Sleeps on his luminous ring.'
Il a e te permis de craindre que la Re volution, comme Saturne, de vora" t successivement tous ses enfants. There is reason to fear that the Revolution may, like Saturn, devour each of her children one by one.
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