The Course of the Empire

[Talal]

I see a lot of talk about nationalism, "empires", creed and all that..this series by Thomas Cole, it truly shows how fake these glories are that we have made up in our minds..Notice the mountain remains at its place in all these paints, just the foreground changes

There is the moral of all human tales;
'This but the same reheasal of the past

First Freedom, and then Glory: when that fails
Wealth, vice, corruption