Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PARAPHRASED, by TITUS LUCRETIUS CARUS


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First Line: When thou shalt leave this miserable life
Last Line: For who shall say to thy dead clay, I love thee!
Alternate Author Name(s): Lucretius
Subject(s): Death; Dead, The


When thou shalt leave this miserable life,
Farewell thy house, farewell thy charming wife,
Farewell for ever to thy souls delight,
Quite blotted out in everlasting night!
No more thy pretty darling babes shall meet thee
By thy kind name, nor strive who first shall meet thee.
Their kisses with a secret pleasure shall not move thee!
For who shall say to thy dead clay, I love thee!




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