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Of joys departed Not to return, how painful the remembrance. - [Proverbs] The common damn'd shun their society. - The Grave, referring to suicides in Hell, attributed to Lamb but not found in his works [Suicide] The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness. - The Grave [Graves] Ye undertakers, tell us, 'Midst all the gorgeous figures you exhibit, Why is the principal conceal'd, for which You make this mighty stir? - The Grave (l. 170) [Undertakers] The best-concerted schemes men lay for fame, Die fast away: only themselves die faster. The far-fam'd sculptor, and the laurell'd bard, Those bold insurancers of deathless fame, Supply their little feeble aids in vain. - The Grave (l. 185) [Fame] The tap'ring pyramid, the Egyptian's pride, And wonder of the world, whose spiky top Has wounded the thick cloud. - The Grave (l. 190) [Monuments] How shocking must thy summons be, O Death! To him that is at ease in his possessions: Who, counting on long years of pleasure here, Is quite unfurnish'd for that world to come! - The Grave (l. 350) [Death] Sure 'tis a serious thing to die! My soul! What a strange moment it be, when, near Thy journey's end, thou hast the gulf in view! That awful gulf, no mortal e'er repass'd To tell what's doing on the other side. - The Grave (l. 369) [Death] But if there be an hereafter, And that there is, conscience, uninfluenc'd And suffer'd to speak out, tells every man, Then must it be an awful thing to die; More horrid yet to die by one's own hand. - The Grave (l. 398) [Suicide] Our time is fixed, and all our days are number'd; How long, how short, we know not:--this we know, Duty requires we calmly wait the summons, Nor dare to stir till Heaven shall give permission. - The Grave (l. 417) [Suicide] See yonder maker of the dead man's bed, The sexton, hoary-headed chronicle, Of hard, unmeaning face, down which ne'er stole A gentle tear. - The Grave (l. 451) [Graves] 'Tis long since Death had the majority. - The Grave (l. 451) [Death] Smiled like yon knot of cowslips on a cliff. - The Grave (l. 520) [Cowslips] When it draws near to witching time of night. - The Grave (l. 55) [Night] Who gather round, and wonder at the tale Of horrid apparition, tall and ghastly, That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand O'er some new-open'd grave; and, (strange to tell!) Evanishes at crowing of the cock. - The Grave (l. 67) [Apparitions] Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society. - The Grave (l. 87) [Friendship] Th' oppressive, sturdy, man-destroying villains, Who ravag'd kingdoms, and laid empires waste, And in a cruel wantonness of power, Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up To want the rest. - The Grave (l. 9) [Tyranny] Careless, unsocial plant! that loves to dwell 'Midst skulls and coffins, epitaphs and worms: Where light-heel'd ghosts and visionary shades, Beneath the wan, cold Moon (as Fame reports) Embodied, thick, perform their mystic rounds No other merriment, dull tree! is thine. - The Grave (l.22) [Yew] The schoolboy, with his satchel in his hand, Whistling aloud to bear his courage up. - The Grave (pt. I, l. 58) [Courage] The good he scorned Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between. - The Grave (pt. II, l. 586) [Goodness]
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