Риель вращ

Feb. 1884

THE NEW LUCIAN

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BEING

A SERIES OF

DIALOGUES OF THE DEAD

BY

H. D. TRAILL

LONDON: CHAPMAN AND HALL

LIMITED

1884

HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

LONDON:

R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR,

BREAD STREET HILL.

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E. T.

"Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which He hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity : for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom in the grave, whither thou goest."-ECCL. IX. 9, 10.

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What matter though such things have never been,

Nor shall be? the Ecclesiast hath said.

Though but in mockery the Samosatene
Imagined his confabulating dead?

What matter though nor knowledge nor device,
Nor work nor wisdom in the grave there be?—
Does not the Preacher bid us once and twice

Live out in joy love's life of vanity?

So live we, then! nor heed what whisper tells
That closest union heaviest reckoning pays
In shock of loss and anguish of farewells
At that eternal parting of the ways.