That was indeed to live—
At one bold swoop to wrest
From darkling death the best
That Death to Life can give!


Shaw. Memorial Ode; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Thomas Bailey Aldrich Quotes

That was indeed to live— At one bold swoop to wrest From darkling death the best That Death to Life can give!

That was indeed to live— At one bold swoop to wrest From darkling death the best That Death to Life can give!

That was indeed to live— At one bold swoop to wrest From darkling death the best That Death to Life can give!

That was indeed to live— At one bold swoop to wrest From darkling death the best That Death to Life can give!