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Nowhere is trust safe.
The faith vowed to the ashes of Sychaeus I have not kept.
The day is at hand which I shall keep (such, O gods, was your will) ever as a day of grief, ever as of honour.
He stands immovable by tears,
Nor tenderest words with pity hears.
Since Fortune's got the upper hand,
let's follow her where she calls and change course.
Deep in her breast lives the silent wound.
Just let me offer a consolation prize to a luckless man, a friend without a fault.
Just before the entrance, even within the very jaws of Hell, Grief and avenging Cares have made their bed; there pale Diseases dwell, and sad Age, and Fear, and ill-counselling Famine, and loathly Want, shapes terrible to view; and Death and Distress; next, Death's own brother Sleep.
She calls it a marriage,
using the word to cloak her sense of guilt.
The fatal dart
Sticks in her side, and rankles in her heart.
Hug the shore... let others keep to the deep!
What dreams thrill me with fears?
