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_Vitae summa brevis spem nos vetat incohare longam_

They are not long, the weeping and the laughter.

Love and desire and hate:

I think they have no portion in us after

We pass the gate.

They are not long, the days of wine and roses:

Out of a misty dream

Our path emerges for a while, then closes

Within a dream.

The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson, With a Memoir by Arthur Symons · 第 20 / 116 题