O most orient clearness, and light shining of the sempiternal brightness!
"A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I."
R. Dodsley
One aspires to Heaven, Pants for its sempiternal heritage, And ever-changing, ever-rising still, 150 Wantons in endless being.
"The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley Volume III"
Percy Bysshe Shelley Edited by Thomas Hutchinson, M. A.
Then Dante shook his head, and he smiled as he answered, blithely, "Madonna, I fought for my flag, for my honor, for the glory of the sempiternal rose."
"The God of Love"
Justin Huntly McCarthy