“The dawn is overcast, the morning lowers,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day,
The great, the important day,
Big with the fate Of Cato, and of Rome.”
Act I, scene i.
Cato, A Tragedy (1713)
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“Prayed for so oft, the dawn of fight is come.
No more entreat the gods: with sword in hand
Seize on our fates; and Caesar in your deeds
This day is great or little.”
Nil opus est uotis, iam fatum accersite ferro.
in manibus uestris, quantus sit Caesar, habetis.
Book VII, line 252 (tr. E. Ridley).
Pharsalia
“If we only have love
Then tomorrow will dawn
And the days of our years
Will rise on that morn.”
Translations and adaptations, If We Only Have Love (1968)
“If we only have love
Then tomorrow will dawn
And the days of our years
Will rise on that morn.”
"If We Only Have Love" as translated in the closing scene in the 1968 musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (1975 film version) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdSXpC8fbNA · Cover versions by Nana Mouskouri http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYeHUhoLNgM · Johnny Mathis http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyJF0ISolEw · Olivia Newton John http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RFhzinX7X8 · Amanda McBroom http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWkvKMlOYyI
If Only We Have Love (1957)
Epithalamium, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And still the arrows flew so thick and fast,
That, as by clouds, the heavens were overcast.”
Tal l'aspro saettare, e tanto dura,
Che per l'ombra de' dardi il ciel s'oscura.
LXIV, 61
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“Rome was not built in a day.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 71.
“We bring roses, beautiful fresh roses,
Dewy as the morning and colored like the dawn.”
The new pastoral Book.