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Great People - Ver Natus

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Great People Ver Natus spring born Back Michelangelo Buonarroti "Burning, I remain in the shadow, As the setting sun retreats into its glow. The others have gone to their life of pleasure, I alone lie grieving, with the earth my measure" "Alas! Alas! For the way I've been betrayed by rushing time! By a mirror too, that told, had I conned it close, a story all too true. It happens so, when regard's long overdue, like mine, for life's end. But time's parade goes swiftly by, and overnight we're old. Too late to repent, to set things right, to hold counsel within, with death obtruding so. My own self was my foe. Of no avail how much I weep and sigh: nothing annuls the waste of days gone by. Alas! Alas! Reviewing all those days There's not one-not one!-I come on there, in all that time, I truly call my own." "Mine then, the power to give us, you and me, a long survival in-choose it-stone or color, faces just like our own, exact and true. Though we're dead a thousand years, still men can

Great People - Ver Natus Great People Ver Natus spring born Back Michelangelo Buonarroti "Burning, I remain in the shadow, As the setting sun retreats into its glow. The others have gone to their life of pleasure, I alone lie grieving, with the earth my measure" "Alas! Alas! For the way I've been betrayed by rushing time! By a mirror too, that told, had I conned it close, a story all too true. It happens so, when regard's long overdue, like mine, for life's end. But time's parade goes swiftly by, and overnight we're old. Too late to repent, to set things right, to hold counsel within, with dea

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