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The Poetical Works of The Rev. Samuel Bishop

... To Which are Prefixed, Memoirs of the Life of the Author By the Rev. Thomas Clare

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EPIGRAM CCXXXVI.

[How strange, (said once a philosophic Greek,)]

SAUVITER UT NUNC EST.

How strange, (said once a philosophic Greek,)
How strange absurdities does man display!
He weeps, to know his life may end next week!—
He laughs,—altho' it may not last a day!