<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116803" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Start not—nor deem my spirit fled:<br>In me behold the only skull,<br>From which, unlike a living head,<br>Whatever flows is never dull.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I lived, I loved, I quaff’d, like thee:<br>I died: let earth my bones resign;<br>Fill up—thou canst not injure me;<br>The worm hath fouler lips than thine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Better to hold the sparkling grape,<br>Than nurse the earth-worm’s slimy brood;<br>And circle in the goblet’s shape<br>The drink of Gods, than reptile’s food.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where once my wit, perchance, hath shone,<br>In aid of others’ let me shine;<br>And when, alas! our brains are gone,<br>What nobler substitute than wine?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Quaff while thou canst: another race,<br>When thou and thine, like me, are sped,<br>May rescue thee from earth’s embrace,<br>And rhyme and revel with the dead.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Why not? since through life’s little day<br>Our heads such sad effects produce;<br>Redeem’d from worms and wasting clay,<br>This chance is theirs, to be of use.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Byron">Byron</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=116803" data-title="Lines Inscribed Upon a Cup Formed From a Skull de Byron" data-description="Start not—nor deem my spirit fled:/In me behold the only skull,/From which, unlike a living head,/Whatever flows is never dull./I lived, I loved, I quaff’d, like thee:/I died: let earth my bones resign;/Fill up—thou canst not injure me;/The ..."></div> </div> </div>

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