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"It is no matter; " -- thus the noble Dane, / About his heart more ill than one could tell; / Sad augury, that like a funeral bell / Against his soul struck solemn notes of pain.
So 'gainst the deadly smother he could press / With calm his lofty manhood; interpose / Purpose divine, and at the last disclose / For life's great shift a regnant readiness.
To-day I bought some matches in the street / From one whose eyes had long since lost their sight.
Trembling with palsy was he to his feet.
"Father," I said, "how fare you in the night?"
"In body ill, but 'tis no matter, friend, / Strong is my soul to keep me to the end."
DISTRUST not a woman nor a king -- it availeth nothing.
-- Egyptian Proverb.
WHEN thou journeyest into the shadows, take not sweetmeats / with thee, but a seed of corn and a bottle of tears and wine; / that thou mayst have a garden in the land whither thou goeat.
-- Egyptian Proverb.