William Empson (1906–1984) English literary critic and poet
"To an Old Lady" (1928), line 1; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 24.
The Complete Poems
“Then should some man of worth appear
Whose stainless virtue all revere,
They hush, they list: his clear voice rules
Their rebel wills, their anger cools.”
Source: Translations, The Aeneid of Virgil (1866), Book I, p. 10
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