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May Heaven, if virtue claim its thought,
If justice yet avail for aught;
Heaven, and the sense of conscious right,
With worthier meed your acts requite!

— John Conington The Aeneid of Virgil (1866)

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Then take, good sir, your pleasure while you may;
With life so short 'twere wrong to lose a day.

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Blest pair! if aught my verse avail,
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From off the heart of time.

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Why make such game of this poor life of ours?

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