"Here now in his triumph where all things falter, Stretched out on the spoils that his own hand spread,As a god self-slain on his own strange altar, De...

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"Time turns the old days to derision, Our loves into corpses or wives; And marriage and death and division Make barren our lives.
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"From too much love of livingFrom hope and fear set free,We thank with brief thanksgivingWhatever gods may beThat no life lives for ever;That dead men ...



