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For him who must see many years, / I praise the life which slips away / Out of the light and mutely; which avoids / Fame, and her less fair followers, envy, strife, / Stupid detraction, jealousy, cabal, / Insincere praises; which descends / The quiet mossy track to age.
But, when immature death / Beckons too early the guest / From the half-tried banquet of life, / Young, in the bloom of his days; / Leaves no leisure to press, / Slow and surely, the sweets / Of a tranquil life in the shade; / Fuller for him be the hours!
Give him emotion, though pain!
Let him live, let him feel: I have lived!
Heap up his moments with life!
Triple his pulses with fame!