Memoirs of John Abernethy / With a View of His Lectures, His Writings, and Character; with Additional Extracts from Original Documents, Now First Published

by George Macilwain

CHAPTER XXXIII.

"Eheu fugaces Postume Postume

Labuntur anni: nec pietas moram

Rugis et instanti senectæ

Adferet, indomitæque morti."

Hor.

"How swiftly glide our flying years,

Alas! nor piety, nor tears,

Can stop the fleeting day;