MWSN II.2:

Calderón de la Barca

["Every stone erects a pyramid, / And every flower builds a monument, / Every building is a haughty sepulchre, / Every soldier a living skeleton" (La vida es sueno, III.vi.285-8; as noted and transl. by Blumberg and Crook, p. 149n)]

(return)


Romantic Circles / Electronic Editions / The Last Man / MWS Notes: II.2