...after many a vanish'd face, Many a planet by many a sun may roll with the dust of a vanish'd lace. Raving politics, never at rest — as this poor earth's...of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns ? Stately purposes, valour in battle, glorious annals of army and fleet, Death for the right cause,...

...the trouble, it soon passes ; it is all the same fifty years hence ; like life, it is soon over." " ' What is it all but a trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns,' eh Norah ? " quoted the Archdeacon, with the ghost of a smile. " Trouble of ants, sir ; Lord bless...

...Science seeks to knoiu rather than believe. This difference is significant. And of religious quarrels — What is it all but a trouble of ants In the gleam of a million suns! "I think, whatever mortals crave, With impotent endeavor, A wreath — a rank— a throne —...

...Raving politics— never at rest a» this poor earth's pale history runs — What is it all but the trouble of ants in the gleam of a million million of suns ? It was a strange though unintentional piece of irony on the part of the journalists in the West which...