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"Thou shalt be-Nothing. "-OMAR KHAYYÁM.
"Tombless, with no remembrance. "-W. SHAKESPEARE.
DEAD shalt thou lie; and nought / Be told of thee or thought, / For thou hast plucked not of the Muses' tree: / And even in Hades' halls / Amidst thy fellow-thralls / No friendly shade thy shade shall company!