"To live indeed is to be again ourselves; which being not only a hope, but an evidence in noble believers, it is all one to lie in St. Innocent's churchyard as in the sands of Egypt; ready to be anything in the ecstasy of being ever, and as content with six feet as the moles of Adrianus."
"Tabesne cadavera solvat,
An rogus, haud refert."—Lucan.
How fine also is that philosophical sentiment of Lucan:
"Victurosque Dei celant, ut vivere durent,
Felix esse mori."
Can any of your correspondents say in what work the following analogous passage occurs, and who is the author of it? The stamp of thought is rather of the philosophic pagan than the Christian, though the latinity is more monkish than classic:
"Emori nolo, sed me esse mortuum, nihil curo."
J. L.
Dublin.
These notes remind my parishioners of an epitaph on a child in Morwenstow churchyard:
"Those whom God loves die young!