Monday, April 06, 2020
It Is Idle To Run
Theodore Parker, letter to George Ripley, quoted in Henry Steele Commager, Theodore Parker (Boston: Little Brown, and Company, 1936), p. 308:
Joseph Wright of Derby, The Old Man and Death
(Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art)
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O, George, it is idle to run from Death. I shrank down behind the sugar canes of Santa Cruz, Death was there too; then I sneaked into a Swiss Valley, there he was; and here he is at Rome. I shall come home and meet him on my own dunghill.
(Hartford, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art)
