Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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That law preserves the earth a sphere,

And guides the planets in their course.

On a Tear.

Go! you may call it madness, folly;

You shall not chase my gloom away!

There 's such a charm in melancholy

I would not if I could be gay.

To ——.

To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.[456:1]

Pæstum.