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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
EPICUREAN, by WILLIAM JAMES LINTON Poet's Biography
First Line: In childhood's unsuspicious hours
Last Line: O death! Life hath not been too long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): Epicureanism; Old Age
First Line: In childhood's unsuspicious hours
Last Line: O death! Life hath not been too long.
Alternate Author Name(s): Spartacus
Subject(s): Epicureanism; Old Age
In Childhood's unsuspicious hours
The fairies crowned my head with flowers.
Youth came: I lay at Beauty's feet;
She smiled and said my song was sweet.
Then Age: and, Love no longer mine,
My brows I shaded with the vine.
With flowers and love and wine and song,
O Death! life hath not been too long.
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