by Plumptre), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. O Death the Healer, scorn thou not, I pray,.For where might and justice are yoke-fellows.

The powers of heaven Persuasion holds aloof.

Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts:īy hymns of praise.

'With our own feathers, not by others' hands, Said, when he saw the fashion of the shaft, That once an eagle, stricken with a dart, Nor sacrifice, nor yet drink-offering pouredĪvails no altars hath he, nor is soothed Of all the gods, Death only craves not gifts: It is not the oath that makes us believe the man, but the man the oath.

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