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yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare; tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:  Drink! for you know not whence you came, nor why: Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.

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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit  Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.

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Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

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