Death and I have met in full, close contact;
And parted, knowing we should meet again;
Therefore, come when he may, we’ve looked upon
Each other far too narrowly for me
To fear the hour when we shall be so join’d,
That all eternity shall never sever us.—_F. Kemble._
What solemnity is there in the following passage, with which Sir Walter
Raleigh concludes his _Marrow of Historie!_ “O eloquent, just, and
mighty Death! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded; what none
have dared, thou hast done; and whom all the world have flattered, thou
only hast cast out of the world and despised: thou hast drawn together
all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of
man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, HIC JACET.”
Finis.
------------------------------------------------------------------------