Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came Quotes

“One taste of the old time sets all to rights.”
― Robert Browning, Childe Roland

“I shut my eyes and turned them on my heart,
As a man calls for wine before he fights,
I asked one draught of earlier, happier sights,
Ere fitly I could hope to play my part.
Think first, fight afterwards, the soldier’s art:
One taste of the old time sets all to rights.”
― Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

“My first thought was, he lied in every word,
That hoary cripple, with malicious eye
Askance to watch the working of his lie
On mine, and mouth scarce able to afford
Suppression of the glee, that pursed and scored
Its edge, at one more victim gained thereby.”
― Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

“There they stood, ranged along the hillsides, met
To view the last of me, a living frame
For one more picture! In a sheet of flame
I saw them and I knew them all. And yet
Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,
And blew. 'Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.”
― Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came

“Visão mais feliz, de outro tempo, eu quis saborear
Para ficar mais apto a encarar minha missão.
Pensar antes, lutar depois, eis do soldado o bordão:
Um vislumbre do passado pode tudo acertar.”
― Robert Browning, Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came