Pleasures are not, if they last;
In their passing is their best: ...
In their passing is their best: ...
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Each of us like you
has died once,
each of us like you
stands apart, like you
fit to be worshipped.
has died once,
each of us like you
stands apart, like you
fit to be worshipped.
You are even a world,
a planet,
and pass from history
and the day's event.
to myth and phantasy,
a planet,
and pass from history
and the day's event.
to myth and phantasy,
Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh, ...
with the dull ache of flesh, ...
Ah petal, dust and wind-fall
on the ground queen awaiting queen.
on the ground queen awaiting queen.
The things we now esteem fixed shall, one by one, detach themselves, like ripe fruit, from our experience, and fall. The wind shal
...
The likeness of the world? A shadow! And world's glory? A dream!
Everything here below beneath the sun is subject to continual change; and perhaps there is nothing which can be called more incons
...
It is useless to contend with the irresistible power of Time, which goes on continually creating by a process of constant destruct
...
Life's brief span [vitae summa brevis] forbids us to enter on far-reaching hopes.
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