Saturn quotes

Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from the fiery noon and eve's one star, Sat gray-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone, Still as the silence round about his lair.

-Keats,John
  Lamia, Isabella, The Eve of St.  Agnes and Other Poems, 'Hyperion', bk.1, l.1^5.

And 'while the world runs round and round,' I said, 'Reign thou apart, a quiet king, Still as, while Saturn whirls, his steadfast shade Sleeps on his luminous ring.'

-Tennyson
  Poems,'The Palace of Art', stanza 4, l.13^16.

Il a e¤  te¤   permis de craindre que la Re¤  volution, comme Saturne, de¤  vora"  t successivement tous ses enfants. There is reason to fear that the Revolution may, like Saturn, devour each of her children one by one.

-Vergniaud, PierreVicturnien
  Spoken at his trial, Oct.

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