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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There as strikes the Player goes.
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days
Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays
Science unrolls a greater epic than the Iliad. The present day teems with new discoveries in Fact, which are greater, as regards the soul and prospect of men, than all the disquisitions and quiddities of the Schoolmen. A few fossil bones in clay and limestone have opened a greater vista back into time than the Indian imagination ventured upon for its gods. This vision of Time must not only wither the poet's hope of immortality, it is in itself more wonderful than all the conceptions of Dante and Milton.
There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might see.
The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
Think then you are Today what Yesterday you were - Tomorrow you shall not be less.
Taste is the feminine of genius.
I am all for the short and merry life.
And much as Wine has played the Infidel, And robbed me of my Robe of Honor Well, I often wonder what the Vintners buy One half so precious as the stuff they sell.
Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest.
If you can prove to me that one miracle took place, I will believe he is a just God who damned us all because a woman ate an apple.
