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

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The Graves of a Household.

Alas for love, if thou wert all,

And naught beyond, O Earth!

The Graves of a Household.

The boy stood on the burning deck,

Whence all but him had fled;

The flame that lit the battle's wreck

Shone round him o'er the dead.

Casabianca.

Leaves have their time to fall,