Gather ye rosebuds while ye may

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may
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Gustav Klimt Kiss painting
Head of Christ
'O ghastly glories of saints, dead limbs of gibbeted Gods!'"... ¡¡¡¡ "Sue, you are not a good friend of mine to talk like that!" ¡¡¡¡ "Then I won't, dear Jude!" The emotional throat-note had come back, and she turned her face away. ¡¡¡¡ "I still think Christminster has much that is glorious; though I was resentful because I couldn't get there." He spoke gently, and resisted his impulse to pique her on to tears. ¡¡¡¡ "It is an ignorant place, except as to the townspeople, artizans, drunkards, and paupers," she said, perverse still at his differing from her. "THEY see life as it is, of course; but few of the people in the colleges do. You prove it in your own person. You are one of the very men Christminster was intended for when the colleges were founded; a man with a passion for learning, but no money, or opportunities, or friends. But you were elbowed off the pavement by the millionaires' sons." ¡¡¡¡ "Well, I can do without what it confers. I care for something higher." ¡¡¡¡ "And I for something broader, truer," she insisted. "At present intellect in Christminster is pushing one way, and religion the other; and so they stand stock-still, like two rams butting each other." ¡¡¡¡ "What would Mr. Phillotson----" ¡¡¡¡ "It is a place full of fetishists and ghost-seers!"