Y_et One breaks not His long repose_,
N_or hither comes when Zephyr blows_;
I_n vain the spring's first swallow trills_;
N_ever again that Presence thrills_;
O_ne charm no circling season knows_
O_n Sabine hills_.
GEORGE MEASON WHICHER
EDITORS' PREFACE
The volume on Horace and His Influence by Doctor Showerman is the second
to appear in the Series, known as "Our Debt to Greece and Rome."
Doctor Showerman has told the story of this influence in what seems to
us the most effective manner possible, by revealing the spiritual
qualities of Horace and the reasons for their appeal to many generations
of men. These were the crown of the personality and work of the ancient
poet, and admiration of them has through successive ages always been a
token of aspiration and of a striving for better things.
The purpose of the volumes in this Series will be to show the influence
of virtually all of the great forces of the Greek and Roman
civilizations upon subsequent life and thought and the extent to which
these are interwoven into the fabric of our own life of to-day.
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