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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457145" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Gualterus Danistonus, Ad Amicos. - And Imitation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dum studeo fungi fallentis munere vitae,<br>Adfectoque viam sedibus Elysiis<br>Arctoa florens sophia, Samiisque superbus<br>Discipulis, animas morte carere cano.<br>Has ego corporibus profugas ad sidera mitto;<br>Sideraque ingressis otia blanda dico;<br>Qualia conveniunt divis, queis fata volebant<br>Vitai faciles molliter ire vias:<br>Vinaque coelicolis media inter gaudia libo;<br>Et me quid majus suspicor esse viro,<br>Sed fuerint nulli forsan, quos spondeo, coeli;<br>Nullaque sint Ditis numina, nulla Jovis:<br>Fabula sit torris agitur, quae vita relictis<br>Quique superstes homo; qui nihil, esto Deus.<br>Attamen esse hilares, et inanes mittere curas<br>Proderit, ac vitae commoditate frui,<br>Et festos agitasse dies, aevique fugacis<br>Tempora perpetuis detinuisse jocis.<br>His me parentem praeceptis occupet orcus,<br>Et mors; seu divum, seu nihil esse velit;<br>Nam sophia ars illa est, quae fallere suaviter hoyas<br>Admonet, atque orci non timuisse minas.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Imitated</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Studious the busy moments to deceive,<br>That fleet between the cradle and the grave,<br>I credit what the Grecian dictates say,<br>And Samian sounds o'er Scotia's hills convey.<br>When mortal man resigns his transient breath<br>The body only I give o'er to death;<br>The parts dissolved and broken frame I mourn:<br>What came from earth I see to earth return.<br>The immaterial part, th' ethereal soul,<br>Nor can change vanquish, nor can death control.<br>Glad I release it from its partner's cares,<br>And bid good angels waft it to the stars:<br>Then in the flowing bowl I drown those sighs,<br>Which, spite of wisdom, from our weakness rise.<br>The draught to the dead's memory I commend,<br>And offer to thee now, immortal friend:<br>But if opposed to what my thoughts approve,<br>Nor Pluto's rage there be, nor power of Jove,<br>On its dark side if thou the prospect take,<br>Grant all forgot beyond black Lethe's lake;<br>In total death suppose the mortal lie,<br>No new hereafter, nor a future sky;<br>Yet bear thy lot content, yet cease to grieve;<br>Why ere death comes dost thou forbear to live?<br>The little time thou hast 'twixt instant now<br>And Fate's approach is all the gods allow;<br>And of this little hast thou ought to spare<br>To sad reflection and corroding care?<br>The moments past, if thou art wise, retrieve<br>With pleasant memory of the bliss they gave.<br>The present hours in present mirth employ,<br>And bribe the future with the hopes of joy;<br>The future (few or more, howe'er they be)<br>Where destined erst, nor can by Fate's decree<br>Be now cut off betwixt the grave and thee.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</a><div class=q>
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Adfectoque viam sedibus Elysiis
Arctoa florens sophia, Samiisque superbus
Discipulis, animas morte carere cano.
Has ego corporibus profugas ad sidera mitto;
Sideraque ingressis otia blanda dico;
Qualia conv..."></div>
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