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John Conington on Memorial Day

1825–1869 England

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Death takes the mean man with the proud;
The fatal urn has room for all.

The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

War, dreadful war, and Tiber flood
I see incarnadined with blood.

The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Conington (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.