“…things long by catholic consent accounted beautiful”
-Quiller-Couch
An act forbidden now, we go to weep On Skyros at the grave of that rare youth Where buried with him are the unities Of all: the good, the beautiful, the true
For men have flung away their thoughts, their songs Their verse, their noble instruments of work And scream abuse at all those forms of art With which their sires hymned chaos into peace
A cause forbidden now, we work to keep For all: the good, the beautiful, and the true