Calmly Pass Away
“Wants, frailties, passions, closer still ally
The common int’rest, or endear the tie:
To these we owe true friendship, love sincere,
Each home-felt joy that life inherits here:
Yet from the same we learn, in its decline,
Those joys, those loves, those int’rests to resign:
Taught half by Reason, half by mere decay,
To welcome death, and calmly pass away.” — Alexander Pope; An Essay on Man, p. 26
M. Fatchurofi
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