<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391072" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To Quintus Dellius</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be tranquil, Dellius, I pray;<br>For though you pine your life away<br>With dull complaining breath,<br>Or speed with song and wine each day,<br>Still, still your doom is death.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Where the white poplar and the pine<br>In glorious arching shade combine,<br>And the brook singing goes,<br>Bid them bring store of nard and wine<br>And garlands of the rose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Let's live while chance and youth obtain;<br>Soon shall you quit this fair domain<br>Kissed by the Tiber's gold,<br>And all your earthly pride and gain<br>Some heedless heir shall hold.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One ghostly boat shall some time bear<br>From scenes of mirthfulness or care<br>Each fated human soul,--<br>Shall waft and leave its burden where<br>The waves of Lethe roll.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">_So come, I prithee, Dellius mine;<br>Let's sing our songs and drink our wine<br>In that sequestered nook<br>Where the white poplar and the pine<br>Stand listening to the brook_.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Eugene+Field">Eugene Field</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=391072" data-title="To Quintus Dellius de Eugene Field" data-description="Be tranquil, Dellius, I pray; For though you pine your life away With dull complaining breath, Or speed with song and wine each day, Still, still your doom is death. Where the white poplar and the pine In glorious arching shade combine, And the b..."></div> </div> </div>

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