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I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,
But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,
Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.

— Ernest Dowson Verses (1896)

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The fairest face of all is the face I have not seen.

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O pray the earth enfold
Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.

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Ah, God, that sweet things should decline,
And fires fade out which were not cold,
Erewhile.

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Yea! for our roses fade, the world is wild,
But there, beside the altar, there, is rest.

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I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,
Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng.

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