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Quod adest memento	A
Componere quus C tera fluminis	B
Ritu feruntur Horace	B
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Improve the present hour for all beside	C
Is a mere feather on a torrent's tide	C
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Could I from heaven inspired as sure presage	D
To whom the rising year shall prove his last	E
As I can number in my punctual page	F
And item down the victims of the past	E
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How each would trembling wait the mournful sheet	G
On which the press might stamp him next to die	H
And reading here his sentence how replete	G
With anxious meaning heavenward turn his eye	H
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Time then would seem more precious than the joys	B
In which he sports away the treasure now	I
And prayer more seasonable than the noise	B
Of drunkards or the music drawing bow	I
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Then doubtless many a trifler on the brink	J
Of this world's hazardous and headlong shore	K
Forced to a pause would feel it good to think	J
Told that his setting sun must rise no more	K
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Ah self deceived Could I prophetic say	B
Who next is fated and who next to fall	L
The rest might then seem privileged to play	B
But naming none the Voice now speaks to all	L
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Observe the dappled foresters how light	M
They bound and airy o'er the sunny glade	N
One falls the rest wide scatter'd with affright	N
Vanish at once into the darkest shade	N
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Had we their wisdom should we often warn'd	N
Still need repeated warnings and at last	N
A thousand awful admonitions scorn'd	N
Die self accused of life run all to waste	N
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Sad waste for which no after thrift atones	B
The grave admits no cure for guilt or sin	O
Dewdrops may deck the turf that hides the bones	B
But tears of godly grief ne'er flow within	O
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Learn then ye living by the mouths be taught	N
Of all these sepulchres instructors true	P
That soon or late death also is your lot	N
And the next opening grave may yawn for you	P

William Cowper

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