"Far-call’d our navies melt away— On dune and headland sinks the fire— Lo, all our pomp of yesterday Is one with Nineveh and Tyre! Judge of the Nations, spare us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget!"
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Rudyard Kipling, "Recessional", st. 3, in The Times (17 July 1897); cp. :4—"For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night." (KJV) and Nahum 3:7—"And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?" (KJV)
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