Note 121 — THE CATHOLIC WORLD. VOL. XXV., No. 150.—SEPTEMBER, 1877.
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“Even as the ilex, lopped by axes rude
Where, rich with dusky boughs, soars Algidus,
Through loss, through wounds receives
New gain, new life—yea, from the very steel.”
—Horat. Carm. iv. 4, Lord Lytton’s Trans.