<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571147" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Salve Eternum</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I.<br>Farewell! O soul departed! <br>Farewell! O sacred urn! <br>Bereaved and broken-hearted, <br>To earth the mourners turn. <br>To the dim and dreary shore, <br>Thou art gone our steps before! <br>But thither the swift Hours lead us, <br>And thou dost but a while precede us, <br>Salve-salve! <br>Loved urn, and thou solemn cell, <br>Mute ashes!-farewell, farewell! <br>Salve-salve! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">II.<br>Ilicet-ire licet- <br>Ah, vainly would we part! <br>Thy tomb is the faithful heart. <br>About evermore we bear thee; <br>For who from the heart can tear thee? <br>Vainly we sprinkle o'er us <br>The drops of the cleansing stream; <br>And vainly bright before us <br>The lustral fire shall beam. <br>For where is the charm expelling <br>Thy thought from its sacred dwelling? <br>Our griefs are thy funeral feast, <br>And Memory thy mourning priest. <br>Salve-salve! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">III.<br>Ilicet-ire licet! <br>The spark from the hearth is gone <br>Wherever the air shall bear it; <br>The elements take their own- <br>The shadows receive thy spirit. <br>It will soothe thee to feel our grief, <br>As thou glid'st by the Gloomy River! <br>If love may in life be brief, <br>In death it is fixed for ever. <br>Salve-salve! <br>In the hall which our feasts illume, <br>The rose for an hour may bloom; <br>But the cypress that decks the tomb- <br>The cypress is green for ever! <br>Salve-salve!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Edward+George+Bulwer-Lytton">Edward George Bulwer-Lytton</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=571147" data-title="Salve Eternum de Edward George Bulwer-Lytton" data-description="I. Farewell! O soul departed! Farewell! O sacred urn! Bereaved and broken-hearted, To earth the mourners turn. To the dim and dreary shore, Thou art gone our steps before! But thither the swift Hours lead us, And thou dost but a while prece..."></div> </div> </div>

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