The Way of the Winepress By John Payne: With an Introduction by Thomas Wright |
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MEMENTO AEQUAM SERVARE ANIMAM. |
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MEMENTO AEQUAM SERVARE ANIMAM.
NOW, when the damps of dissolution laveThy flagging feet and stir the cold grey haze,
That grows and gathers in the latter days
About the soul, — when in Time's whelming wave
All that the clamorous senses seek and crave
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And nothing lights for thee life's darkening ways,
Save the pale flame that flickers o'er the grave;
Now, — above all, — when hope is left behind,
Remember to conserve a constant mind;
Seeing that, with death if all be done for thee,
All will be solved in sleep; and if again
Thou live, thou wilt have purged been in Death's sea
Of all rememorance of joy and pain.
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