“By thee do seers the inward light discern;
By thee the statue lives, the Gods return.”
Hilaire Belloc (1870–1953) writer
Heroic Poem in Praise of Wine (1932)
“Not till the hours of light return
All we have built do we discern.”
"Morality" (1852), lines 7-12
Context: With aching hands and bleeding feet
We dig and heap, lay stone on stone;
We bear the burden and the heat
Of the long day and wish’t were done.
Not till the hours of light return
All we have built do we discern.
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All we have built do we discern." by Matthew Arnold?
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