Pereunt Et Imputantur
(After Martial) Bernard, if to you and me Fortune all at once should give Years to spend secure and free, With the choice of how to live, Tell me, what should we proclaim Life deserving of the name? Winning some one else's case? Saving some one else's seat? Hearing with a solemn face People of importance bleat? No, I think we should not still Waste our time at others' will. Summer noons beneath the limes, Summer rides at evening cool, Winter's tales and home-made rhymes, Figures on the frozen pool--- These would we for labours take, And of these our business make. Ah! but neither you nor I Dare in earnest venture so; Still we let the good days die And to swell the reckoning go. What are those that know the way, Yet to walk therein delay?
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"(After Martial)..."
Exploring the themes of classic, Henry John Newbolt, Sir delivers a powerful performance in "Pereunt Et Imputantur"... ### Why We Love This Line At Linespedia, we believe that poetry is the ultimate sanctuary for the soul...